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Leapfrog#10 Crypto churches and AI evangelismThis episode was partly generated by my AI-cloned voice, which narrated my essay Crypto churches and AI evangelism (though it doesn't sound like me).My new writing project Reading the Waves is here: https://readingwaves.substack.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit leapfrogs.substack.com2025-05-2412 min
Leapfrog#9 Quitting VC to chase mom-and-pop shopsIn this episode, we’re stepping away from the metaverse and AI craze and turning to the world of traditional industries.Venture capital is an often glorified job for young professionals. Will Kurniawan lived that dream for a few years before deciding to leave it behind. Rather than following the typical path for a venture investor — raising his own fund or joining a tech startup — he took an unconventional route by pivoting to traditional sectors.A little over a year ago, Will launched Emerald Lane, a boutique buyout firm, or a ‘serial acquirer,’ that seeks out small...2025-02-1829 min
Leapfrog#8 The good, the bad and the ugly of AI anime fantasiesHappy holidays and welcome to Leapfrog, a podcast exploring global entrepreneurs beyond the American-centric bubble. Thanks for your patience with the delayed update, but this episode will be worth the wait!🎄🤶2024 has flown by, punctuated by continued breakthroughs in generative AI. In this episode, I speak to Raven Gao, a philosophy enthusiast turned computer science graduate who is building an AI platform for generating anime-style characters. As of today, the tool, called PixAI, has attracted over 5 million users, primarily from the US and Japan.This wide-ranging conversation began with Raven’s formative years, where he found so...2024-12-2336 min
打臉藍白第一品牌EP12.藍白本週五要闖關三大爭議法案，再不站出來就來不及了｜打臉藍白第一品牌📣訂閱Youtube頻道會員 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yQlvNA_YktNCpQwCzcBAQ/join 📣訂閱Podcast頻道會員 https://open.firstory.me/join/taiwandreamer 本集章節 02:07 本集概要 03:55 我也被祖了 06:24 本週鏡檢最新進度 12:13 民眾黨網紅帶貨折扣碼 16:41 網紅民粹政治狂粉的養成 25:56 民進黨一黨獨大？ 30:16 國民黨一分鐘通過選罷法修正 36:32 這就是你們要的制衡？ 42:20 藍白削弱公民動員能量 45:17 考委終於過了，之前在擋爽的？ 47:53 公民不站出來是無法擋下藍白的 冬季青鳥在台北活動資訊 ➤ 12/18（三）晚上 18:30 地點：中國國民黨中央黨部外 「冬季青鳥在台北，濫權立委究責會」向中國國民黨抗議行動，增加訴求「聲討傅崐萁」。 ➤ 12/19（四）晚上 18:30 集合、19:00 開始 地點：立法院濟南路 「討伐傅崐萁大遊行」，繞行立法院周圍。 ➤ 12/20（五）早上 09:30（視議事進行可能持續到下午） 地點：立法院濟南路 「守護憲法法庭，捍衛公民罷免權，守住民主過好年」群賢樓外守護行動，觀看院會議事直播。 民主補破網-罷免資訊整合平台 https://bly.to/VoOBQpE 📧各式聯繫請洽 taiwandreamer@outlook.com 👀追蹤我的社群 https://portaly.cc/taiwandreamer 📢各大podcast平台收聽 https://open.firstory.me/story/cm4li1yn50fee01x143ajcwyk/platforms 主持人及節目資訊： 鬼島夢想家系列創作者，政治改歌作品逾40首 法律研究者/原生柯昌黑/擅長政治及法律議題 本節目採不定期更新，打臉藍白，保證精彩！ 本節目由以下訂閱會員贊助播出： Rita chen、lan lin、Liao Ivy、蔡柏楓、林煜傑、Bruce、Amy-、Ja、ADA Lin、黃文昌、劉志倫、MingCheng Jiang、林柏翔、I Love Freedom、陳芬華、Connie、Lucky Flyer (Magical Flyer)、王霞君、秋元雄、郭明融、T7、蔡朝陽、嘻嘻、黃智妤、Yu Yu、不一、Benjamin Huang、郭祐豪、Wu Frank、HH小白、Dual horn、RAYSHEN LIN、Jun Lin、joanna**、小百合、BeefNoodle Shen、Mickey Yang、周奕廷、蔡志強、Jack Chang、周鴻志、林吟靜、Vincent Hsu、Wu Jane、LadyQ、Wayland Aheny、Chia-Chi Ho、o宗杰、數位司馬懿、Alys Wang、小游、林青諺、Stanley、Ady、大安區Harry、ericchou0523、bestfit #黃國昌 #柯文哲 #民眾黨 #青鳥 #國民黨 #罷免 #立法院 #徐巧芯 #民主補破網 Powered by Firstory Hosting2024-12-1851 min
Leapfrog#7 How this founder leveled up after China's gaming crackdownWelcome to Episode 7 of Leapfrog, a podcast about global entrepreneurs outside the American-centric bubble.Beijing’s regulatory crackdown on the gaming industry in the late 2010s prompted a wave of Chinese studios to seek overseas expansion. Despite their domestic success and abundant developer talent, these companies often struggled with go-to-market in the foreign land. Ada Liu, who grew up in China and worked in the North American gaming industry, saw an opportunity to launch a startup bridging that gap. Timeline:1:40 Ada said she wasn’t a “good student” in China6:34 Kung Fu Panda...2024-10-2530 min
Leapfrog#6 'Working at TikTok gave me reverse culture shock'Welcome to Episode 6 of Leapfrog, a podcast about global entrepreneurs outside the American-centric bubble. I apologize for my glitchy voice in this episode; my seven-year-old MacBook suffered from a water damage! Lucy Gao had been studying and working in the US for over a decade before reconnecting with her homeland. Instead of moving back to China physically, she joined the US office of TikTok, the Chinese-owned short video app that was seeing a meteoric rise around 2020, to gain a sense of home.In Silicon Valley, Lucy experienced China’s rigorous “996” culture—working from 9 am to 9 pm, six...2024-09-0430 min
Leapfrog#5 Emma's story: From French lit to Arabian EVsWelcome to Episode 5 of Leapfrog, a podcast about global entrepreneurs outside the American-centric tech bubble. Special thanks to Emma and Danny’s expert editing help!Emma Meng always seems to be excelling as an outsider.Raised in south China in the 90s, she became the first Chinese to be admitted by Cambridge to study French. After working in the fashion industry in New York, she returned to China and wrote a book about Elon Musk at the dawn of Tesla’s rise to become a household name. After riding her home country’s spectacular boom of bat...2024-08-0529 min
Leapfrog#4 Running for a better future: A Chinese founder’s Singapore moveHello, this is Rita Liao. Welcome to Episode #4 of Leapfrog, a podcast about entrepreneurs who have left home and are reshaping a slice of the global tech landscape. You can read more about why I started this project in About.In recent years, many young Chinese have decided to leave their homeland for better job prospects and a greater sense of security abroad. Netizens named this phenomenon “rùn” (润), a play on the English word “run”. The term reflects the motivations behind the exodus: economic uncertainties and increasingly limited personal freedom, which were exacerbated by the pandemic. China’s net...2024-07-1542 min
Leapfrog#3: 'Chinese entrepreneurs now need a political science degree'Hello, this is Rita Liao. Welcome to Episode #3 of Leapfrog, a podcast about entrepreneurs who have ventured out of their native land and are reshaping a slice of the global tech landscape. You can read more about why I started this project in About.David Chang belongs to the generation of Chinese who came of age during the nation’s economic reforms, and whose worldview was shaped heavily by China’s increased openness to the world. A cohort of them went on to study abroad and founded tech companies that aspired to capture international markets. In recent year...2024-07-0143 min
Leapfrog#2: From chicken farm to food tech startup exitHello, this is Rita Liao. Welcome to Episode #2 of Leapfrog, a podcast about entrepreneurs who have ventured out of their native land and are reshaping a slice of the global tech landscape. You can read more about why I started this project in About.Hailing from a rural chicken farm in eastern China, Winston Chi sauntered into a field after school every day, picking wild berries and daydreaming. It was a carefree childhood contrasting the academically rigorous, sedentary one his urban peers had in the 90s and 2000s. Occasionally, glimpses of the outside world came through gifts...2024-06-1841 min
Leapfrog#1: From China to Sierra Leone - the path of a digital nomadHello, this is Rita Liao. Welcome to Episode #1 of Leapfrog, a podcast about entrepreneurs who have ventured out of their native land and are reshaping a slice of the global tech landscape. You can read more about why I started this project in About.When Xin Yan heard about Bitcoin in 2017, he was studying electrical engineering in Israel. He soon dropped out of the masters program and joined a wave of entrepreneurs trying to prove that cryptocurrency, and more broadly, blockchain, has real-world utility beyond enabling speculative bubbles and scams. Backed by Sequoia Capital, his startup EthSign...2024-06-1042 min
World Ledger with Coco KeeBe Greedy when Others are Fearful - Hong Kong is Playing Catch-up, an Interview with Rita Liao, Asia Reporter, TechCrunchIn this Episode, Asia Reporter of TechCrunch Rita Liao shares her insights on China's evolving technology innovation landscape, explores reasons behind the decline of China's consumer tech sector and the simultaneous rise of new sectors such as EV, enterprise software, semiconductors and Biotech. We also discuss Hong Kong's changing stance towards cryptocurrency and what the implications for retail investors in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
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Clotheshorse with Amanda Lee McCartyEpisode 174: Sewing As A Part of Slow Fashion with Zoe of Check Your Thread (part 2)Amanda is joined by Zoe Edwards, host of Check Your Thread. This is part two of their conversation. Zoe gives us advice on how we can sew more sustainably. And Amanda explains "fast fashion 3.0" and Cider.Get connected with Zoe:Check Your ThreadIntroduction to Garment Fabrics (by Zoe)Zoe's personal sewing blogInstagram: @checkyourthreadAdditional reading:"How Cider became TikTok’s go to brand, despite ‘cultural appropriation’ and ‘stolen’ designs," Lydia Venn, The Tab."Don’t Bother Looking for the Next Shein," Avery Booker, Jing Daily."The Search for...2023-09-052h 02
The TechCrunch PodcastSalesforce CEO succession drama and other TC newsThis week Darrell talks with Rita Liao about the great wall of porn obscuring information about protests in china. And Ron Miller comes on to recap the AWS re:invent event and his story on Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor stepping down. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.Articles from the episode:Great Wall of porn obscures China protest news on Twitter Bret Taylor steps down as co-chair and CEO of SalesforceAll of TC’s AWS re:invent converageOther news from the week:Instafest app lets you create your own...2022-12-0234 min
Newslit Daily🤖 Hype Doesn't Always Match RealityToday’s pickTech Giants Pour Billions Into AI, but Hype Doesn't Always Match Reality. After years of companies emphasizing the potential of artificial intelligence, researchers say it is now time to reset expectations. With recent leaps in the technology, companies have developed more systems that can produce seemingly humanlike… (Karen Hao, Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal)NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach. Opensea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach. A staff at Customer.io, an email vend...2022-06-3001 min
Newslit Daily☁️ Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMwareToday’s pickBroadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware. Broadcom Inc. is in talks to buy cloud-computing company VMware Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Talks are ongoing and there is no guarantee they will lead to a deal, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the… (Liana Baker / Bloomberg)Metaverse app BUD raises another $37M, plans to launch NFTs. BUD, a nascent app taking a shot at creating a metaverse for Gen Z to play and interact with each other, has raised another round of funding in thre...2022-05-2300 min
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