Grace Hsiao

On the kind of the surface is I think Chinese aunties, uncles, whatnot, they are just much more open to technology because, you know, you go around, whether it's by force or by nature, you know, you can't really navigate modern Chinese life without being on Alipay and WeChat.

After COVID, I went back to I think Shanghai for the first time.

And I was sitting at a restaurant just like waiting for someone to like help me order food.

No one came because they're just like, why are you so like, why are you a caveman?

Don't you know how to like...

scan the QR code on your table.

Okay, so that tangent aside, I think the overall optimism around technology is very different from the West because in the last 20, 30 years, a lot of rural areas in China

literally could not access resources, information, goods, whatever that, you know, like big cities could.

Not until these super apps came about.

So a lot of people don't have TVs in their homes and they live in a village and their maybe annual household income is like $1,000.

But they will have a smartphone.

And that smartphone will be able to actually enable them

to get microloans, to purchase goods, you know, to help their kids access information online, whatever that is.

So technology is very much kind of accepted and respected.

And actually like big tech is loved.

Like if you work for one of big tech, you are like a pride of the family.

So there's that very culture aspect of it.

Then it's like going back to the super apps.

So I think the OpenClaw frenzy was interesting because some people say it was the first agent that, you know, Chinese people could get their hands on, like a Western agent that they can get their hands on because, you know, Anthropic and OpenAid doesn't actually operate in China.

You can't access that.