Shopee’s highly-localised 11.11 videos
This article originally appeared in the Chinese blog of Momentum Works on Wechat platform, translated into English by the MW team.
While this year’s double...
E96 – The Impulso Podcast – (Only) after $72B invested, VCs...
(Only) after pouring $72 billion into Southeast Asia, venture capitalists are hitting the reset button in Southeast Asia?
Lightspeed Ventures' report, Southeast Asia: Resetting Expectations,...
Cotti Coffee opens 10,000th store, aiming for another 40,000 in 2025
Cotti Coffee, China’s 2nd largest coffee chain by store count, celebrated its 2nd anniversary last week. To mark this occasion, Cotti announced the opening...
Temu receives endorsement from China’s official news agency
Temu, the global arm of PDD holdings, seems to have received an endorsement from China’s official Xinhua news agency.
The article, entitled “From 0 to...
Is ByteDance reflecting on its ecommerce strategy?
Many ecommerce ecosystem stakeholders we spoke to have been puzzled by TikTok Shop’s prolonged focus on profitability this year.
Earlier this year, TikTok Shop reduced...
How to buy an iPhone 16 Pro in Hangzhou, China?
Momentum Works team is in Hangzhou for our immersion: ecommerce and live commerce this week, where we see the “iPhone16Pro” ads all across the...
E94 – The Impulso Podcast – Disneyland or Cyberpunk: how does...
Wenheyou (文和友), a Chinese restaurant often dubbed the "Disneyland of Chinese cuisine", serves over 40,000 diners a day!
The 6-story restaurant (located in Changsha, China)...
Temu launches in Vietnam
Temu has launched in Vietnam and Brunei, bringing the ecommerce platform’s number of markets in Southeast Asia to 5.
The ecommerce platform started its first...
Life 10 years after Rocket Internet
In 2013, I started working with Blake Larson and Alex Le in building Easy Taxi, a Rocket Internet company, in Southeast Asia.
It was a...
Retail in China can ‘completely beat ecommerce’: Hema founder
Chinese value retailer Miniso’s US$890 million investment in the country’s 2nd largest supermarket chain Yonghui Superstores certainly raised a lot of eyebrows.
Hou Yi, founder...