“There’s no Skype, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, we use WeChat. OK Tell me your WeChat number!” — Higher Brothers, WeChat The copycat of technology from the West that was China’s tech industry in the past, is dead. And it wasn’t curiosity that killed it. In fact, as China’s…

Most advice about early career growth tends to sound like: “Look for the rocket ship, get on board, and hang on tight!” Two months shy of my 2-year mark (and a Patagonia jacket), I closed my laptop instead feeling like I had jumped right out of the emergency exit, just…

“Do your parents say, I love you?” Now that most of my peers and I have moved out from our childhood homes, there usually isn’t too much to talk about when it comes to our immigrant parents. I might hear a quick mention about visiting for a few days, or…

Second long-form update. Start at When To Jump off a $500 Million Rocket Ship. One of the fantastic things about starting a startup in 2021 is the incredible abundance of startup resources freely available. Y Combinator and Startup School, vocal and successful entrepreneurs on the Twitterverse and Medium, and VCs…

Short story. He twisted the knob on his bedside speakers. Thump, thump, thump, thump. The slap of the guitar strings rang clearer. White lips, pale face. The words started to bleed in with the rain. Yet, he couldn’t shake the distant feeling of familiarity. …

Recruiting for early stage startups, a look into my mind to (maybe) help you find your next rock star February 18th. That’s when I finally lifted myself out of the “What are you doing after graduation” purgatory. I had been interviewing with these Series A and Pre-Series A startups from…

“Passionate from miles away” — AKON Signup Form: https://goo.gl/forms/AGRQsqx5Ab9E7hX82 Hi, Chris here! How are you? So as you might have heard, I graduated! And as I can’t stay away from learning for too long, I’m creating this Learning Community for Fruits. Let me tell you about it. TL;DR I think…

No 3rd party intermediaries, complete transaction transparency, and independence from any central regulator — Blockchain is the trust machine: it algorithmically manufactures consensus. But what kind of trust will be effective and respected? From the very onset of the 2008 Bitcoin white paper author, this decentralized digital ledger technology has…

Facebook in 2009. Twitter, later that year. Google, in 2010. Time and time again, in the face of government pressure and the battle over censorship, the Internet giants of the West fell to their knees at the hands of China. Then just four years ago, in the budding months of…