I first went through the financials of Bilibili in 2018, shortly after it went public. It was a very interesting company because of its rapidly growing usage. But I thought it was basically a weird niche version of YouTube. It had lots of quirky videos about anime, comics and gaming. It had pioneered bullet chat. […]
Legendary emerging markets investor Mark Mobius recently commented that the China “crackdown” on big tech is likely going to help some smaller digital companies. Those that have long been at a disadvantage to China’s tech giants. They may now have air cover from the government. If nothing else, the giants will be far more hesitant […]
This week’s podcast is about Skillz and Electronic Arts. There are some interesting and evolving strategy aspects to gaming – especially as it goes to multiplayer and tournaments. And as Skillz opens up tournament gaming based on cash rewards, the question is how far into gambling is this going to go? You can listen to […]
Last week, I wrote about Epic Games and the potentially large disruption coming from gaming engines. That article is below. How Epic Games and Game Engines Are Disrupting Media / Entertainment. (Jeff’s Asia Tech Class – Daily Lesson / Update) And you have probably heard about the epic (pun intended) fight between Apple and Epic […]
The following link is to a 6 Part Primer for Epic Games by Michael Ball. Michael is a highly regarded thinker on US media and entertainment. And media is a space that tends to change quickly with digital. I encourage you to read this. You might have noticed Epic Games in the news lately: They […]
In this class, I talk about Shopee (ecommerce) and Garena (online gaming) in SE Asia – and the complementary platform businesses Sea Limited is building. You can listen here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya. The previous articles and books I cite are: Platform Revolution (book) This is part of Learning Goals: Level […]