China and the Biggest Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard of

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🗓️ 22 October 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Clay Shirky talks about Xiaomi, the subject of his new book, "Little Rice."

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBO Idea Cash from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.7	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:34.4	Today I'm talking with Clay Shirky,
0:36.1	professor at NYU Shanghai,
0:38.2	an author of the new book Little Rice,
0:40.5	Smartphones, Shao Me, and the Chinese Dream.
0:43.4	Clay, thank you so much for talking with us today.
0:45.6	Thank you, sir. Thank you for having me.
0:47.6	So I want to both get into the company, Shao Me, which is super interesting,
0:52.0	but I also want to talk a little bit about where China's at right now,
0:54.8	sort of the way you do in the book, which I think you really do a great job of sort of flipping back and forth
0:59.2	very fluidly between those two related topics. But let's start with Shami. It's a super interesting company
1:05.3	that a few industry observers have taken note of, but the public at large, especially in the
1:09.9	United States, still seems very unaware of them. So let's just start with a quick
1:14.5	intro to the company. Who are they and why should we be paying attention to them?
1:17.8	So, Shami is a cell phone manufacturer in China.
1:23.3	We should pay attention to them because they have become
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