Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 31, 2015WeChat suggests that the only thing preventing tech center of gravity from moving to China is its government not being a liberal democracy.225
Naval@naval·Aug 31, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr WeChat impressive but one could take opposite stance - Chinese government has helped local players win.122
Naval@naval·Aug 31, 2015Replying to @naval@vgr without government involvement, perhaps Twitter, Google, Youtube, Uber would have won China already.215
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @naval@naval If you set government impact to equal, it becomes a contest of creativity, and WeChat shows the amount of local Chinese creativity5:17 PM · Aug 31, 20153 Likes
Michael@mmay3r·Aug 31, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @naval or it shows how tech can develop when given a clean sandbox. Analogous to innovation happening in frontier1