Dan Wang

Something like two trips that have gone on this year and three more trips that are being planned.

And so people are visiting.

And I think that there are these marvels out there and it's only on us that we're not going out to discover it.

And so if you have the chance to visit, if you have the chance to go inside a factory, definitely take it.

I strongly believe that it doesn't matter what a factory is making.

It is always fascinating, whatever it is.

They could be the most boring products.

I could be making brake pads and I've visited a superbly interesting brake pad factory.

I had no idea how these things were made.

When I was in China, every time I had the chance to do a factory tour to perhaps eat with the workers, I always took it and I'd tell the factory managers, I'll put away all my electronic devices, I'll sign whatever you need me to sign, but just walk me through the factory floor and that's always a ravishing experience.

Yeah.

So if we're taking a look at the, let's say, top 0.01% of entrepreneurs, I feel like there's a lot of similarities.

When I chat with people who interact with their counterparts, Silicon Valley folks chatting with their counterparts in Beijing, they tend to respect each other and they look upon each other as peers.

And I think there's some ways in which the Silicon Valley folks

are a little bit more philosophical.

They're a little bit more engaged with policy and trends and what their impacts of their companies and their technologies are on society, often because the employees make them.

And I think maybe the Chinese entrepreneurs are a little bit more involved with thinking about the political trends, often because the Communist Party makes them.

But at a work ethic level, I think they're probably pretty comparable.

But if we broaden it out a little bit more, let's say the top 10% of workers, maybe here again, there's more similarities than dissimilarities.

I would suspect that the Chinese are putting in more hours just trying to work harder here.