Wildcard: China Tech w/ Rui Ma of TechBuzz China
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Chinese tech is in the news lately, with President Donald Trump teasing bans of Chinese apps. Special guest Rui Ma, co-host of the TechBuzz China podcast, joins The Motley Fool’s Ben Ra and Nick Sciple to discuss the state of Chinese tech today, paying special attention to fast-growing Chinese tech companies Pinduoduo and Bytedance (parent company of TikTok).
Stocks Mentioned: PDD, TCEHY, BABA
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyphill. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:19.1 | Wild-C-C-C-Chert Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.1 | Welcome to Industry Focus. I'm your host Nick Saibold. Joining me today is Molly |
| 0:30.4 | Fool analyst Ben Ra. Our special guest today is Ray Ma. |
| 0:33.6 | Ray is an expert in Chinese consumer technology with a background in venture |
| 0:37.0 | capital and private equity in China. Today she serves as a co-host of the |
| 0:41.1 | Tech Buzz China podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | Ray Ma, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 0:45.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:47.0 | So we were talking before the show about your background in China, |
| 0:50.6 | how you've come to develop an expertise in this space can you share that with our |
| 0:54.3 | listeners and maybe give us a little pitch for the Tech Buzz China podcast. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah sure as I was saying I was in China from 2007 to 2015, so for eight years full-time working in investing across some multiple industries, but primarily in tech and was lucky to be there while the you know tech ecosystem really grew in the early 2010s for |
| 1:17.5 | tech bus China it's just a recent you know two years ago started this podcast to fill what I saw was a gap in tech coverage of Chinese |
| 1:26.9 | companies and it was primarily to scratch my own itch and then also help my friends understand. But basically what we do is we don't focus exclusively on public equities, but we do talk quite a bit about large companies and so it's sort of very late stage startups and we try to give perspective on headline news, |
| 1:47.0 | we'll always say headline news that don't always make into English language coverage. |
| 1:51.0 | So I think we were, for example, the first, some of the first people to talk |
| 1:54.7 | about like the rise of e-cigarettes in China and a bunch of other topics. |
| 2:00.7 | Yeah, so just off the bat as we dive into Chinese tech just broadly, from an American |
| 2:05.2 | perspective, why would you say it's important to understand Chinese technology and the |
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