Hanson Hu (胡海川)

Time to reach 1bn MAU for social APPs: TikTok ~ 3 years WeChat ~ 6 years WhatsApp ~ 7 years Instagram ~ 8 years Facebook ~ 8.5 years

@ZikangJiang my bro did the same from Gemini SF to BLR recently, Chinese also.

just moved from Sf to Bengaluru! where are all the hardware/robotics ppl?

@1kunalbahl plaud.ai

What's the best software/device to take easily notes in a physical meeting and share actionables? There are so many new ones out there, hence curious what's best in class right now.

@viditaatrey great move

Meesho is building India’s largest creator marketplace! 🚀 We’re transforming influencer-led shopping by launching Content Commerce—a dedicated business unit empowering creators, sellers, and consumers in a dynamic three-way marketplace. 21,000+ creators are now part of this ecosystem, with 14.5M users shopping through content-led experiences. Through Creator Club—our in-house affiliate program, Video Finds, and Live Shop, we’re democratizing content commerce by unlocking economic opportunities for creators of all sizes and followerships. Whether in metros or small towns, emerging and established influencers alike can monetize their content, drive real sales, and thrive. Take Ramyaa Gopi, a creator from Chennai—her product review of a ‘magic eraser’ from Meesho hit 1.2M views. Through Meesho Creator Club, thousands of creators like her are turning content into an income stream, earning upto ₹5 lakh+ every month. By making content commerce inclusive, accessible, and rewarding, @Meesho_Official is empowering creators across India to shape the future of e-commerce. instagram.com/reel/DDcHjonTV…

Here you go: DeepSeek R1 is an AI model. An AI model is a bunch of a matrices with floating point numbers (referred to as weights) where you feed in an input (a sequence of characters embedded as a vector of floating point numbers) and get an output sequence. DeepSeek is a mobile app (same name as the company) that lets you interact with that AI model through a chat interface. When you use their app, your data (prompts) go to their servers. The company has also open sourced (basically uploaded all those matrices) the weights of the AI model for free use by anyone. When you download those weights and bring it up yourself on your own server, you get to control the inference of the AI model and that way any user request sent to this new server doesn’t go to China as long as the servers are hosted in US. The weights are just a bunch of numbers organized as matrices executed with sequential matrix multiplies - so no computation needs to leave the server in order to compute the next word in a sequence. That way, another company can download the weights, host it on their servers, and let users interact with them in a chat frontend, and customize the AI model further to do more things like searching the web or using tools like code execution, wolfram, etc

@MohapatraHemant should get more Indian AI talents back to India to build and join AI startups

India needs to do a lot better on AI. It's not that the # of companies that start ever yr is slowing down. It's that only so many GTM-focused companies can get funded in any category. We need far more R&D led companies focused on global best technical and product superiority.

Met President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Kazan BRICS Summit. India-China relations are important for the people of our countries, and for regional and global peace and stability. Mutual trust, mutual respect and mutual sensitivity will guide bilateral relations.

The first AAA game made in China. Black Myrh Wukong is a milestone for China gaming industry, also the hottest topic in tech space last month.

@puneetiitm TikTok ~ 1.0-1.1b Douyin ~ 0.8-0.9b TikTok+Douyin ~ 1.8-2b (but yes they are 2 apps)

I was looking at the top 7 apps by active users worldwide and realized that all 7 are from just 2 companies - Google and Meta! Insane. Whatsapp ~2b Youtube ~1.8b Facebook ~1.5b Chrome ~ 1.5b Google ~ 1.3b Instagram ~ 1.25b Google Play ~ 1.2b

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@kunalb11 Shanghai

In most major cities, the older parts of town are often more aesthetically beautiful, exuding a unique character, whereas the newer sections of these cities tend to exhibit a similar look across the board. Efficiency scales but at the cost of soul.

Finally! China stops Zero-COVID policy and is reopening!

1/n Among the companies under the theme of China Growth & Globalization, our investment team has three top picks: ByteDance, Shein, and MihoYo. ByteDance’s TikTok has been the fastest growing App in the world. Here is our deep dive on its launch, growth, and monetization:

@sandeepnailwal I would suggest you study Bytedance.

What are the best books to read on organization/team building. Specially focussed on hyper scaling stage of a startup would be even more appreciated 🙏🏼

SHORT VIDEO is the content format with the highest monetization efficiency. What has happened in China is replicating in the rest of the world.

Life RESTART in #Shanghai. People queuing up for getting into shopping mall (TaiKooLi) instead of getting COVID test.

$500,000+ within 30mins of launch on @Kickstarter!! Congrats to LUBA!

@turingou 可以的👍🏻 确实在参加过的space里面属于高质量的

今晚长达两个小时的技术分享学到了很多东西，大家几乎没有废话，都是实打实的经验分享，非常受用。

Excited to see our 3 partners Richard (#4), Fisher (#19) and Elwin (#78) named to the 2022 @Forbes Midas List of the Top 100 VC investors worldwide! @5YCapital is the only China VC with 3 names on the list, and Richard my boss is ranked top 5 for the second year in a row.

A very interesting way to think about Etherium.

introducing decentralized commerce - DeCo? LOL