Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.

Topics covered include:
 * The global surge in 2012 of entrepreneurs starting ridesharing companies nowhere moreso than China 
 * Didi CEO Cheng Wei and investor Wang Gang’s backgrounds at Alibaba first entrepreneurial effort in Momo and Momo’s pivot to Didi Dache
 * The culling of the ridesharing herd in China down to Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache through brutal competition and involvement of the “big three” Chinese internet companies 
 * Rise of the Chinese messaging apps and associated mobil

Episode 31: The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store

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