Gary Rieschel of Qiming Venture Partners on VC, tech, and the U.S.-China relationship
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.7 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In a show taped in Seattle, Kaiser chats with Gary Rieschel, founding managing partner of Qiming Venture Partners. With 30 unicorns and over 30 exits, Qiming has been one of the most successful VCs in China, investing in numerous companies that have gone on to become household names in the country. Gary reflects on his years in China and the folly of decoupling.
Recommendations:
Gary: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and Factfulness, by Hans Rosling.
Kaiser: Watchmen, the new show on HBO created by Damon Lindelof.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy holidays to all of you from the cynical podcast and SubChina. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the cynical podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China produced in partnership with SubChina. |
| 0:18.4 | SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the important news coming out of China. |
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| 0:30.3 | Sign up for SubChina access, and you get all that and much more, |
| 0:33.2 | with stories and everything from the Belt and Road to local entrepreneurship and innovation in China, |
| 0:37.0 | from the travails of ethnically Chinese researchers in the U.S. in this age of creeping McCarthyism, |
| 0:41.8 | to China's ongoing extra-legal internment of hundreds of thousands, |
| 0:45.3 | or by some estimates over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region. |
| 0:50.7 | We're sure you'll agree it's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Kaiser Guo, and I'm coming today from Seattle, Washington. Alas, Jeremy Goldcorn was unable to join me for this jaunt to the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1:06.0 | Today I have the privilege of chatting with Jerry Raichelle, one of the most admired venture capitalists on the China tech scene. I can think almost nobody in the business and probably even fewer Americans |
| 1:14.8 | who've been in the thick of it for as long as Gary has been, and who've been able to not just |
| 1:18.9 | watch the sector develop, but actually participate in and really meaningfully shape its |
| 1:23.3 | development. Gary's best known as the founding managing partner of teaming ventures, which launched |
| 1:27.7 | in 2006, and has amassed it a truly stunning portfolio. I think they've got 30 plus unicorns, |
| 1:34.2 | over 30 exits, and if I'm not mistaken, something like $4 billion under management, I think it's |
| 1:39.8 | 12 funds, seven that are U.S. dollar denominated, and five that are RMB. And it has backed companies |
| 1:46.1 | that are household names to anyone, even glancingly familiar with tech in China. Gary's |
| 1:51.4 | involvement in VC and China goes back much further, and his perspectives on China extend well |
| 1:56.7 | beyond just tech investing. So technology being so much at the heart of the troubles that now |
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