Host Wenchi Yu speaks with Olivia Plotnick, a Shanghai-based social media and marketing entrepreneur, who recently completed a marketing research project spanning 30 cities in 60 days in China. The conversation attempted to answer the question: How’s China’s economy faring? Has the trade war’s impact been felt on the ground? How are consumers spending their money? Olivia’s findings of health & fitness, tourism, beauty, and youth trends challenge conventional wisdom and offer surprising in...
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Host Wenchi Yu speaks with Olivia Plotnick, a Shanghai-based social media and marketing entrepreneur, who recently completed a marketing research project spanning 30 cities in 60 days in China. The conversation attempted to answer the question: How’s China’s economy faring? Has the trade war’s impact been felt on the ground? How are consumers spending their money? Olivia’s findings of health & fitness, tourism, beauty, and youth trends challenge conventional wisdom and offer surprising in...
Ep. 7 From Silicon Valley to Hsinchu: How Taiwan's Engineers Built the World's Semiconductor Industry
Perspectives with Wenchi Yu
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Ep. 7 From Silicon Valley to Hsinchu: How Taiwan's Engineers Built the World's Semiconductor Industry
Host Wenchi Yu speaks to Konrad Young 楊光磊. Trained as an engineer in Taiwan and the US, Konrad’s life journey mirrors Taiwan’s semiconductor history. As one of the six “R&D knights,” Konrad retired from TSMC in 2018. He was an independent director of SMIC from 2019 to 2021 and an advisor to Intel. He started his career at MIT Lincoln Lab. After President Trump’s White House announcement of TSMC’s $100 billion investment in the U.S. on March 3rd, reactions in Taiwan have been mixed. Many ...
Perspectives with Wenchi Yu
Host Wenchi Yu speaks with Olivia Plotnick, a Shanghai-based social media and marketing entrepreneur, who recently completed a marketing research project spanning 30 cities in 60 days in China. The conversation attempted to answer the question: How’s China’s economy faring? Has the trade war’s impact been felt on the ground? How are consumers spending their money? Olivia’s findings of health & fitness, tourism, beauty, and youth trends challenge conventional wisdom and offer surprising in...
