East Meets West: A Podcast about understanding Asia Tech and how Asia Tech affects the world

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down ByteDance. ByteDance is a technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies.  Dedicated to building global platforms of creation and interaction, ByteDance now has a portfolio of applications with over 1.9 billion monthly active users across 150 mar...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down New York Times Co. New York Times Co is an American media company known for publishing its flagship newspaper, The New York Times. The company also operates the International New York Times newspaper, as well as digital properties such as nytimes.com and various smartphone applications. The New York Times sources of revenue include circulation of its...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Snowflake. Snowflake Inc. is a cloud data platform provider. Snowflake's platform enables customers to consolidate data into a single source to drive business insights, build data-driven applications and share data.  Snowflake's platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds. Its platform unifi...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Pinduoduo. Pinduoduo is the third- largest e-commerce platform by gross merchandise volume and the largest platform by active buyer in China. In 2020, it achieved USD 255.6 billion of gross merchandise volume, and USD 324.2 of annual spending per active buyer. It had 8.6 million active merchants in 2020 and 867 million active buyers in the year ended...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Animoca Brands. Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of the open metaverse. Leave us a Review! If you e...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Nvidia. Nvidia is the top designer of discrete graphics processing units that enhance the experience on computing platforms. The firm's chips are used in a variety of end markets, including high-end PCs for gaming, data centers, and automotive infotainment systems. In recent years, the firm has broadened its focus from traditional PC graphics applica...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Coupang Inc. Coupang is South Korea’s largest e-commerce company. The company sells apparel, electronics, footwear, food products, furniture, nutritional supplements, and other products. Its segments include Product Commerce and Growth Initiatives. It is the largest foreign IPO on Wall Street since Alibaba. Leave us a Review! If you enjoy listening t...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down DraftKings Inc. DraftKings is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company. The company provides users with daily fantasy sports (DFS), online sports betting, and iGaming (online casino) opportunities and is also involved in the design & development of sports betting and casino gaming platform software for online and retail sports book and c...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Yuga Labs. Yuga Labs is an NFT and cryptocurrency marketing and development company. Starting in April 2021 with the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), the company has sold Bored Ape NFTs and has since developed more NFT and Metaverse-based solutions. On March 11, 2022, Yuga Labs expanded its NFT ecosystem further by acquiring   CryptoPunks and Meebit...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Foot Locker Inc. Foot Locker operates thousands of retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The company mainly sells athletically inspired shoes and apparel. Foot Locker's merchandise comes from only a few suppliers, with Nike providing the majority. Store names include Foot Locker, Champs, and Runners P...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Xiaomi Corporation. Xiaomi, registered in Asia as Xiaomi Inc., is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software, home appliances, and household items. Behind Samsung, it is the second largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, most of which run the MIUI operating system. Leave us a Review! If you enjoy listen...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Fortescue Metal Group. Fortescue is an Australia-based company engaged in iron ore mining. Fortescue focuses on exploration, development, production, processing, and sale of iron ore. Fortescue owns and operates a fully integrated infrastructure and supply chain, including five-berth Herb Elliott Port in Port Hedland; the Judith Street Harbour towage...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Appen. Appen provides or improves data used for the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence products. Data types include speech and natural language data, image and video data, text and alphanumeric data and relevance data to improve search and social media engines. Appen boasts a crowd of 1 million people, who annotate the data s...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Formula One Group. Formula One Group controls the exclusive commercial and promotional rights to the Formula One World Championship series, and the monetization of those rights is the primary business of the group. The firm is responsible for development and promotion of the Formula One race series in concert with its three partners: the FIA (the reg...

What is a hiatus? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. Every week we pick an investing or business concept and explain it in a refreshingly simple way. This is our ' Simple Sprouts ' series. In this episode we cover: Why we're putting Simple Sprouts on hiatus How much we love our listeners Why you should check out our Sunday breakdowns too Listening to us on Spotify? Rate us 5-stars! It really help...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Zomato. Zomato is an India-based company that has  two core business-to-customer offerings: Food delivery and Dining-out. It also has a business-to-business offering, Hyperpure, which supplies ingredients to restaurant partners. Customers use its platform to search and discover restaurants, read and write customer generated reviews and view and...

What are the top news stories in the markets? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. We're trying something new this week by recapping the latest news on some of investors' favourite companies. This is our ' Bite-Sized News ' series. In this episode we cover: Apple's move into subscription hardware Tesla's share split Lululemon beating guidance Beyond Meat's McPlant burger sales Listening to us on Sp...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Tencent. Tencent is arguably the most influential Internet firm in China as one can hardly go  a day without using its products. Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor and owns the world's top-grossing mobile game - Honor of Kings. Tencent also runs China's largest social media super app - WeChat. The app is now part of the fabric of l...

What is space investing? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. Every week we pick an investing or business concept and explain it in a refreshingly simple way. This is our ' Simple Sprouts ' series. In this episode we cover: Why space is an emerging industry Three of the top investment areas for space How to invest in space businesses Listening to us on Spotify? Rate us 5-stars! It really helps supp...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). TSMC is the world's largest dedicated chip foundry, with over 58% market share in 2020 per Gartner. TSMC's scale and high-quality technology allow the firm to generate solid operating margins, even in the highly competitive foundry business. Furthermore, the shift to the fabless business model has cr...

What is a share split and why is Amazon doing one? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. Every week we pick an investing or business concept and explain it in a refreshingly simple way. This is our ' Simple Sprouts ' series. In this episode we cover: What is a share split How share splits affect investors Why companies do share splits Listening to us on Spotify? Rate us 5-stars! It really helps...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Sony Group. Sony is a conglomerate with consumer electronics roots, which not only designs, develops, produces, and sells electronic equipment and devices, but also is engaged in content businesses, such as console and mobile games, music, and movies. Sony is a global top company of CMOS image sensors, game consoles, professional broadcasting cameras...

What is a neobank and what is the future of banking? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. Every week we pick an investing or business concept and explain it in a refreshingly simple way. This is our ' Simple Sprouts ' series. In this episode we cover: What is a neobank How neobank's differ from traditional banks What is the future of banking Listening to us on Spotify? Rate us 5-stars! It real...

In this episode, Dan and Albert break down Walmart. America’s largest retailer by sales, Walmart operated over 11,400 stores under 54 banners at the end of fiscal 2021, selling a variety of general merchandise and grocery items. Its home market accounted for 78% of sales in fiscal 2021, with Mexico and Central America (6%) and Canada (4%) its largest external markets. In the United States, ar...

How does Warren Buffet invest and what is he investing in now? We explain it in 5 minutes or less. Every week we pick an investing or business concept and explain it in a refreshingly simple way. This is our ' Simple Sprouts ' series. In this episode we cover: Who is Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway The four main investments of Warren Buffet What is Warren Buffet's investing philosophy Wh...