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Livecast #4: Deep Dive into Agora $API with Kevin Xu of Interconnected.blog
Manage episode 437211322 series 3240662
Recorded Thursday 2/10/21.
Kevin, now at Github, is the founder of interconnected.blog, a bilingual newsletter on the intersections of tech, business, money, geopolitics, and US-Asia relations.
We go over:
What is Agora? It's a platform as a service company.
The origin story of Tony Zhao the CEO who was previously at WebEx & then CTO at YY, where he achieved substantial success.
Agora's technology & business model, which is developer facing and self service and usage based
What happens when there are more Chinese companies like Agora building infrastructure technologies? Does innovation have to be something super different / sexy or can it also be arising out of battle-tested scaling-up technologies, like Agora? And finally, Agora's latest acquisition, another Chinese company called Easymob.
103 episodes
Manage episode 437211322 series 3240662
Recorded Thursday 2/10/21.
Kevin, now at Github, is the founder of interconnected.blog, a bilingual newsletter on the intersections of tech, business, money, geopolitics, and US-Asia relations.
We go over:
What is Agora? It's a platform as a service company.
The origin story of Tony Zhao the CEO who was previously at WebEx & then CTO at YY, where he achieved substantial success.
Agora's technology & business model, which is developer facing and self service and usage based
What happens when there are more Chinese companies like Agora building infrastructure technologies? Does innovation have to be something super different / sexy or can it also be arising out of battle-tested scaling-up technologies, like Agora? And finally, Agora's latest acquisition, another Chinese company called Easymob.
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