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Investing in transformative companies @BaillieGifford. Erstwhile cartographer at Chinese Characteristics. Opinions and memes are my own.

Jan 10, 2021, 25 tweets

My Jan 2021 thread of threads. I'm doing a thread a day on topics of technology, China, product design, culture and investment in a shameless bid to get followers and highlight my newsletter

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Here's what I've written:

1) Jan 01 - Chinese meme of 'Labours' that highlights growing anti-capitalist sentiment

2) Jan 02 - Meituan's founding story and it's path to winning.

3) Jan 03 - Chinese creater economy and MCN

4) Jan 04 - PinDuoDuo and 996 work culture

5) Jan 05 - Alibaba's brilliant use of data in their strategy

6) Jan 06 - Robots in everyday Chinese life

7) Jan 07 - Dual circulation as a central tenant of Chinese economic policy

8) Jan 08 - Weibo aka Chinese Twitter product set

9) Jan 09 - Baidu's fall from grace

10) Jan 10 - Tesla’s China strategy

11) Jan 11 - Overview on Bilibili

12) Jan 12 - Alibaba rebuttal

13) The blind mysteries of Pop Mart

14) Throwback to the cool audio features of Ximalaya

15) Xiaohongshu aka China's Instagram (but not)

16) The State of Chinese cloud

17) The playbook to get rich in Chinese tech

18) The crazy growth strategies of Perfect Diary / Yatsen Group

19) How we should think about Chinese tech: tech-enabled institutions

20) Product philosophy of Kuaishou

21) The weird things about Chinese VC landscape

22) Wechat video's strategy

23) How to think about applying livestreaming to your tech ecosystem

24) Gaming culture in China

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