In this class, I talk about Ant Financial/Alipay, AI factories and the basics of payment platforms. You can listen here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya. The previous articles I cite are: From Big, Dumb Bureaucracies to Zero-Human Operations: The Holy Grail of the Digital Age (pt 1 of 2) How Ant Financial […]
One of the big digital China / Asia stories of 2019-2020 has been the movement of Alipay into services. And I don’t think people have quite realized what a giant Alipay (i.e., Ant Financial) has become in China and increasingly globally. From a recent article by Technode: In what Alipay CEO Simon Hu dubbed the […]