Our thoughts: TikTok CEO’s US congress testimony
Yesterday (23 March), TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before a US congress committee, in the latest development of an epic struggle for TikTok’s future...
Will TikTok’s online supermarket in China be successful?
Douyin, Bytedance’s Chinese version of TikTok, quietly launched an online supermarket service as part of its e-commerce offerings during the Lunar New Year break...
The knock on effects of tech layoffs
When we hosted Taking your tech company global: People, Culture and Leadership event with 01VC in late October, we used the following graph, taken...
Can Lazada and TikTok Shop compete effectively against Shopee? Recap part...
Shopee, the largest ecommerce platform in Southeast Asia, was in an all out expansion mode (new markets, new verticals) in 2021 – and its...
Your questions on “Off the record: Shopee’s turbulent 2022” answered
On competition, Sea Capital, Tencent and take rates
The evolution of bubble tea
How did bubble tea come into existence? Let's trace the history of tea and how bubble tea came to be
How did the “Pinduoduo of beverages” become a 20,000 store bubble...
Some of us in Singapore might have seen the $1 ice cream from Mixue and their quite popular bubble tea varieties. But who actually...
Our thoughts on Pinduoduo’s ecommerce launch in the US
In the news: Pinduoduo is launching a new ecommerce app in the US called Temu. Read here for our thoughts and analysis.
E15 Low Level Barbarians: Updates(Early Stage Investing, Profitable Optionality, Personal Struggles),...
After a long hiatus, the Low Level Barbarians are back with their interesting perspectives on all the trending topics in the tech ecosystem.
Low Level...
