Realpolitik in Tech by Maggie Xiao

due diligence on innovation amidst geopolitical chaos

Autonomous Driving Battery EV

CATL: The Missed Empire and the Playbook for the Next Industrial VC

When Software Ate the World, Manufacturing Built It.

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Zines

Turning and Satoshi Go to a Bar, Vitalik on Palo Alto Consensus, IBM+Red Hat=Cloud Hangover? How to Steal all the Bitcoins, DTC Frenzy, Foxconn

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

Zines

Hong Kong, Python Threat, Plant-Based, AI in Drug Disc, EdTech, UFO, LoveFrom

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

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Offshore Investment, Apollo Lite, Water, Rare Earth, BRI, Liu Cixin, a Wanderlust in China

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

Zines

Libra; AI true advantage; Circadian Medicine; China Tech; Coherent Ising Machine; SwiftUI; Generalist;

[Social Media] Will WeChat be the next? Facebook brings on Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal as backers of its cryptocurrency, Libra. Crypto watchers got different feelings : * Bullish Billionaire crypto investorMichael Novogratz commented: “Visa serves some 50mm merchants. I’m sure MC(master card) is pretty close to that. Meditate on that.

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing Venture Fundable?

If a cat is either black or white, we receive online ads 80% of the chance we won’t click. If a cat is super-positioned with both possibilities, things just appeared in our minds become a click away, trading at home like a quant is matter of a button to

Venture Capital IPO Stock Market

Economists Never Considered Human Creativity?

You may be surprised to discover that in the past 10 years, overall venture capital return is zero, according to a conversation between Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) and Marc Andreessen (a16z) (a must see video here from StartUp Grind Conference in 2017 Redwood City). It may be even more