From Dianping to RedNote: Shanghai’s role in breeding successful consumer apps...
In this episode, we’re joined by Freeman Ding, a pioneer of China’s consumer internet boom who worked in Chinese tech giants like Baidu, and...
No Bullshit takeaways from China’s AI trenches: Why DeepSeek scares and...
Note: the title of this article is generated by DeepSeek R1. The article itself, though, is written by a real human.
Chinese gen AI startup...
Why big techs didn’t use the DeepSeek approach
This article, originally published in Chinese, was excerpted from the notes of a discussion that took place in Beijing on Sunday 26 Jan 2025....
[Press Release] TikTok Shop in the U.S. Achieves Explosive Growth in...
SINGAPORE, 27 January 2025 – TikTok Shop’s global GMV surged to US$33.2 billion in 2024, more than doubling year-over-year. The United States emerged as...
What Rocket Internet and Prosus can teach Chinese companies expanding globally?
Friends of Momentum Works might already be familiar with the book Seeing the unseen: behind Chinese tech giants’ global venturing. The book, co-authored by...
[New report] TikTok Shop in the U.S. achieves explosive growth –...
TikTok Shop’s global GMV surged to US$33.2 billion in 2024, more than doubling year-over-year. The United States emerged as TikTok Shop’s largest market, achieving...
I asked DeepSeek to write an article about itself, and it...
Trust that by now, you would already be familiar with DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company spun off a quant fund that has been rocking...
Alibaba’s Joint Venture in South Korea: A Clever Move
This article was written on December 30, 2024 for the Chinese blog of Momentum Works on the Wechat platform, and was translated into English...
“Those who do not like Pinduoduo have never tried it”: mentor...
You might already know that Duan Yongping, a Chinese business and investment guru, has been a mentor of Pinduoduo founder Colin Huang.
Duan founded consumer...
Will TikTok survive in the US? | Impulso E107
So, TikTok went dark after the US ban, for about 14 hours. Then, it was back online, with a message crediting its return to...