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...
E93 – The Impulso Podcast – Life after Rocket Internet: conversation...
In the third and final part of our conversation with Blake Larson and Alexander Le, the three ex-rocket alumni turned founders reflect on life...
E92 – The Impulso Podcast – Impact of Rocket Internet in...
In the second part of our conversation with Blake Larson and Alexander Le, the three ex-Rocket Internet Alumni dive deeper into the fragmented Southeast...
E91 – The Impulso Podcast – Founders walk a lonely road:...
In this episode of the Impulso podcast, Jianggan Li is joined by Blake Larson, Ex-Global Managing Director at Lalamove, and Alexander Le, Ex-Managing director...