Personal musings on an approach to launching products that's the opposite of the lean startup. I call it Grand Canyon jumps: medium.com/@efeng/sometim… You can't jump the Grand Canyon in stages. Instead you have to build up enough speed on one side and hope your momentum is enough to carry you over in one jump. Some product launches are the same.

Personal musings on @ToutiaoApp, the world's most valuable startup who happens to be a news / media company, and the disruption in the media industry brought on by technology.
medium.com/@efeng/the-fut… @ToutiaoApp is a content publishing platform, not a news aggregator (think Medium, not Google News). AI recommendation tech has been key to its success, but more important is the market opportunity in China, where bad state owned media has created an unmet need for entertainment.

Personal musings on the rise (and further rise) of @PokemonGoApp, one of the most successful mobile games of all time.
medium.com/@efeng/the-ris… After breaking download records during its launch back in July 2016, you might think that interest in @PokemonGoApp had died off. But you'd be wrong. With user and revenue up almost 2x YoY, the app recently broke $2B in total revenue in only 811 days, the 3rd fastest time ever.

Personal musings on the venture capital industry, with a focus on the fundraising and investment stats behind it.
medium.com/@efeng/a-stats… Over the past 15 years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of venture capital funds, with new seed funds being the main driver of that growth. A full 60% of funds raised each year are now seed funds.

Some personal musings on the state of consumer startups: medium.com/@efeng/consume… . Will we see a next wave of iconic consumer companies emerge? 2009 - 2012 was truly the golden age of consumer startups. In 2009, we had @Pinterest, @WhatsApp, and @Uber. In 2010, @instagram and @xiaomi. In 2011, @Snapchat. And in 2012, @ToutiaoApp. Some of the greatest consumer companies ever all launching in a remarkable 4 year span.