Great piece on my home city! One of the few I’ve read which really delves into the truths behind the trends that everyone is talking about. Hangzhou has been economically prosperous for decades, and this provided the resource, capacity and foresight to drive frontier/high-tech development. I’d also make the case that its relative lack of internationalism compared to eg Shanghai enabled a more-domestic focused drive - distilling into the outputs we are seeing today
That’s a great point about its relative lack of internationalism- my guess is that it probably has implications not just on talent but on financing too.
I would love to read more deep dives about this founder. From not clouding innovation with commercial gain to handling AI talent a bit differently, feels like for China there are key learnings here.
Great piece on my home city! One of the few I’ve read which really delves into the truths behind the trends that everyone is talking about. Hangzhou has been economically prosperous for decades, and this provided the resource, capacity and foresight to drive frontier/high-tech development. I’d also make the case that its relative lack of internationalism compared to eg Shanghai enabled a more-domestic focused drive - distilling into the outputs we are seeing today
That’s a great point about its relative lack of internationalism- my guess is that it probably has implications not just on talent but on financing too.
I would love to read more deep dives about this founder. From not clouding innovation with commercial gain to handling AI talent a bit differently, feels like for China there are key learnings here.