On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat

Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by lewisl9029 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:17PM (#14100863)

I don't doubt that there must have been quite a bit of competition before WeChat came into dominance, but is that still true today?

If WeChat is indeed so overwhelmingly dominant in people's lives in China, what strategies do the startups there use to compete with WeChat's core offerings like chat, social networking, payments, and to what degrees of success? Or do startups their just accept WeChat as a piece of infrastructure and try to innovate by building things on top of their platform instead of competing against them directly?

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Re:On Growing: Lessons from the Story of WeChat by ganfortran on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:14PM (#14101315)

Wechat controls social connection. It is like you cannot compete with Facebook on social as well here. So, you have to cooperate with them.

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