Wenbin Fang·Nov 7, 2019Kingsoft: the Microsoft of China, kind of — Old China Tech 4In 1978, a Hakka immigrant from Mainland China, Zhang Kaiqing (张铠卿), founded a company called 金山 (meaning “Gold Mountain”) in Hong Kong…
Wenbin Fang·Oct 24, 2019From 3721 to Yahoo China to 360 — Old China Tech 3In the previous post, we learned that Hao123 was a major way for Chinese internet users to find websites around the year 2000, when search…
Wenbin Fang·Oct 15, 2019From Foxmail to the super app — Old China Tech 2Foxmail was a very popular Chinese Email client on Windows. It was the biggest Microsoft Outlook competitor in China.
Wenbin Fang·Oct 13, 2019Hao123 — The static website sold for ~$10 million — Old China Tech 1It’s fascinating to see the rise of some well-known huge China Tech companies (10s of 1000s of employees), e.g., Alibaba, Tencent, Toutiao…
Wenbin Fang·Jun 22, 2018Why I prefer asynchronous communication via email?How often do you spend 1/3000 of your total net worth on a stranger on the street?A response icon2A response icon2
Wenbin Fang·Jun 15, 2018Re: Do you regret leaving corporate for entrepreneurship?This is my comment in this Hacker News thread.
Wenbin Fang·May 5, 2018Re: You don’t actually need a co-founderThis is my response to a Hacker News thread “You don’t actually need a co-founder (2016)”.
Wenbin Fang·Apr 25, 2018What you don’t do defines who you areI recently had conversations with two funny VCs.A response icon3A response icon3
Wenbin Fang·Mar 6, 2018Don’t do beta testing with your family & friendsMore often than not, it’s pseudoscience, especially for consumer-facing internet products. It’s very possible that the demographics you are…
InNextdoor EngineeringbyWenbin Fang·Jan 28, 2016Meet a Nextdoor engineer: Tim WongTim is a senior engineer who, in his three years at Nextdoor, has helped build a small neighborhood social network into a nationwide…A response icon2A response icon2
