When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China

by Connie Chan

• China
• gaming, social, and new media
• mobile (& messaging)
• go to market
• how innovation happens
• network effects
• #longreads
• brand & branding
• consumer startups
• distribution
• fintech
• future of work
• new mediums & forms of communication
• O2O (online to offline)
• operating systems
• payments
• QR codes
• read-alouds
• super apps
• tech is global
• trends 2015
• unbundling/bundling
• winner-take-all dynamics

On Native Bitcoin Apps, Open Source Communities, and What Happened Before Satoshi Nakamoto Vanished

by Mike Hearn

• crypto & web3
• online communities
• open source
• #longreads
• community
• founder/maker stories
• in-residence
• Q&As
• rise of the developer
• who is Satoshi Nakamoto

When Productivity Breaks Down Into a Set of Verbs

by Benedict Evans

• #longreads
• future of work

This is a Tale of Two Irans

by Christopher Schroeder

• education
• innovation clusters
• mobile (& messaging)
• #longreads
• Africa
• economics
• history
• MOOCs
• regional innovation
• tech is global
• trade