WeChat

"There are interesting use cases that Tencent is pushing to try to put the embedded AI engine inside the WeChat app, which services about 1.4 billion people. This could be a huge upgrade to WeChat, which hasn't really changed that much in my use of..."

"Chinese don't buy on websites. There is no e-commerce as we know it. They only buy on their super apps — on WeChat, Rednote, and equivalent. And so we had to learn all that."

"At one point we were not able to operate on the WeChat platform. Trying to compete in China and not having access to WeChat, it's like trying to compete in the US without like email or a phone number."

"China obviously in mobile has a single super app for everything and you do everything through WeChat."

Tim Ferriss

mentioned

"Almost like the App Store but somewhat like WeChat in China. If you want to do anything, you want to book a restaurant, you want to make a song, there are few interfaces to everything."

"WeChat is used by 1.4 billion people. This is the messaging app. Well, basically you can live your whole life through WeChat if you live in China. So the idea that Manus will be used to develop an agentic AI tool that can be used within WeChat mak..."

"It works out in China in WeChat because there's no other way for them to fund the whole thing. The whole economy and user behavior has been optimized around gamifying. It's not how things work in America."

"WeChat is definitely big."

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

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"China 10 years ago was living through super apps, mainly Tencent's WeChat, and Alibaba's Alipay"