Unlock China

Unlock China is a 6-week trip for founders, entrepreneurs and investors to discover the tech industry in Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of China. #UnlockChina

[Unlock China @UnlockChina]

Learn about how 11/11, also known as #SinglesDay or #Double11, has far surpassed #BlackFriday as the largest shopping day in the world. 💹

🇺🇸 Black Friday 2017
$7.9 B in sales
40% mobile purchases

🇨🇳 Double11 2018
$30B in sales
90% mobile purchases

https://t.co/YPBG3butsF

[Cheryl Ng @explorengcheryl]

The @6Initiative is happening tonight!! Such a packed house full of amazing energy from entrepreneurs in the #6ix @YSpaceYU

[🙏 Martin Hauck @1Hauck]

What if The Last Supper wasn't as big a deal we've made it out to be and it was actually just the last meal before Jesus and the Apostles all started the Keto diet together?

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

#5G speed test at Shenzhen China exhibition. Leave your phone's data plan on overnight, the telecom company gonna come round the next day to repossess your home 😆

[Izzy Piyale-Sheard @izzydoesizzy]

@OHaraClare How far behind is Canada from the UK or Europe?

@somseif We’re all far behind China.

THANK YOU! I was literally just tying out “Why is there no mention of China, which has the largest financial institutions in the world?”

#CanadianDream

[Izzy Piyale-Sheard @izzydoesizzy]

Amazing to hear Som Seif tell the audience how and why #China is far ahead in #Fintech.

“That’s what’s happening on a much larger and more organized fashion in China from a customer-centric perspective.”

Som Seif - Purpose Investments @somseif

#CanadianDream #UnlockChina

[Izzy Piyale-Sheard @izzydoesizzy]

Critical point by @somseif. China is far ahead in #Fintech because they didn’t have the barriers of large financial institutions that have been around for 100 years.

For that reason, they started with and adopted new technologies much more quickly.

#CanadianDream #UnlockChina

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

No shit Sherlock🧐 https://t.co/5nbGx5nSbN

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

'WeChat, shape of the connected China' 56 page overview of WeChat just released. Big thanks to @FABERNOVEL_Asia for inviting me to contribute. Link: https://t.co/Bqcu0rY3RM

[Chris Harihar @ChrisHarihar]

Think this is the first real ad campaign I’ve seen on @tiktok_us. @kerrymflynn

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

#Tencent's investment team gave a rare public interview last week.
"There is a disciplined logic behind everything we do. / Tencent is NOT an investment bank. / Took us a year to land Supercell."
I translated the entire transcript here: https://t.co/1UjvGeLWSC

[Unlock China @UnlockChina]

@mbrennanchina Wow incredible. Thanks for sharing @mbrennanchina!

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

#Tencent to lead Reddit's Series D, $2.7 billion pre-money valuation https://t.co/YqWPAzTeam

[Izzy Piyale-Sheard @izzydoesizzy]

In just 2 years, the incredible new Chinese social media platform @tiktok_us owned by @BytedanceTalk has amassed over 500M monthly active users.

TikTok is currently growing at a rate of 1.68X as fast as Facebook based on average yearly growth from inception.

#UnlockChina #China

[Kai-Fu Lee @kaifulee]

#aisuperpowers is on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller list again.

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

#WeChat's 8th Anniversary Annual Staff Meeting was in Guangzhou yesterday. #Tencent trying their very best to help out #Apple's poor iPhone sales in China, gifting brand new engraved iPhones to thousands of staff 😁

[Matthew Brennan @mbrennanchina]

BIG new #WeChat update. Mini program drop-down menu now full screen with search-bar. This has been the vision all along, took them 3 years to get to there: a new home screen for your phone with mini-apps for everything.

[Izzy Piyale-Sheard @izzydoesizzy]

@conniechan Thanks for all the incredible insights and info about China, Connie.

Made you my @UnlockChina newsletter’s “follow of the week”

You’re the best!

https://t.co/2i4VbAfAI8

[Kai-Fu Lee @kaifulee]

Privacy laws should not be binary. They should offer each user a way to draw a line between privacy and convenience. They should also consider the technology and economic implications. Extra-protective privacy laws will hurt data aggregation, thus AI, thus the economy.

[Izzy Piyale-Sheard @izzydoesizzy]

Exciting new @unlockchina newsletter coming up on Monday!

1️⃣ China's historic lunar rover
2️⃣ Baidu to test driverless vans in the US with Walmart
3️⃣ Microsoft announces largest AI lab in Shanghai

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[Unlock China @UnlockChina]

@Davidramli @mbrennanchina Given how incredible computer vision is in China, I’m sure it works quite well.

Take a look at some of these videos. https://t.co/ZnvSIqBMJV

[Izzy Piyale-Sheard @izzydoesizzy]

Let’s play the Taobao image recognition game at IKEA!

How to play:
1. Take a picture of a random item at IKEA
2. Use Taobao’s image recognition to see if it can find something similar or the same.

GO!

#UnlockChina #China