This is Part 3 on my visit to the Meituan-Dianping headquarters in Beijing. Part 1 was my main take-aways. Part 2 was what I think people are getting wrong about Meituan. “Local services” has been a hot topic this year. And we have seen big local services moves by many of China’s digital giants. Tencent-backed […]
In Part 1 of this series, I sat down with a Didi driver and tried to get a better understanding of what life is like driving with Didi (article located here). In this second Part , I dig into the increasing innovation happening on the driver and car-owner side of Didi’s business, which is pretty […]
汪子明，已婚，上海本地人，同时也是一个小老板和滴滴出行司机。我最近和他坐下来聊了一会儿。我希望了解他作为一名滴滴司机的工作。他的生活是怎样的？他的生活有了怎样的变化？接下来有什么打算？
I recently sat down with Wang Ziming, a Shanghai native, family man, entrepreneur and top driver for Didi Chuxing. My goal was to understand his work as a Didi driver. What was life like? How has it been changing? What’s next? In this three-part series, I am going to try and detail how the other […]
Some thoughts on the increasing competition in China ride-sharing. Plus stuff around the Philippines. Video is below and here. Youtube only. —– I write and speak about digital China and Asia’s latest tech trends. Music: Tobu – Colors http://youtube.com/tobuofficial Released by NCS https://www.youtube.com/NoCopyrightSo…
My latest video on China’s sharing economy. Shot in Thailand. Link here. ———- My writing and speaking are on digital China and Asia’s latest tech trends. Music is: Sunburst by Tobu & Itro https://soundcloud.com/7obu Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…
在过去三个月中，我在传统企业（保险公司、医院、化工企业和快递公司）做了多场演讲，主题涉及数字化在中国的进程。在这些演讲中，我将我的主题归纳为中国数字化转型和颠覆的三条规则，具体如下。
在第一部分里，我阐述了中国几家数字巨头企业（美团、携程和阿里巴巴）为何在近期先后进军网约车市场的原因。在接下来这一部分里，我将为以下问题寻找最佳答案：
过去几个月以来，中国的几家数字巨头企业先后闯入了网约车市场。这让人颇感意外，因为随着优步的退出，中国网约车市场必定将呈现出滴滴出行一家独大的局面。并且，我认为滴滴也抱有同样想法，因为它们目前正集中精力开拓国际市场。通常来说，只有在赢得中国市场后企业才会这么做。
In Part 1, I gave my explanation for why several of China’s digital giants (Meituan, Ctrip, Alibaba) have jumped into ride-sharing recently. In this part, I give my best answer to: Question 2: Can they win? Can they break into Didi’s ride-sharing business? My answer (thus far): They can definitely enter successfully. But winning long-term […]
