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Re:How Chinese Education System Helps and Hurts China by shard on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @05:02AM (#2890436)
But the thing is, the brilliant founders that do emerge from China can readily tap into a much larger pool of capable employees than in the US, and they have over 4 times the population of the US.
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Re:How Chinese Education System Helps and Hurts China by tomjen3 on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @06:09AM (#2890591)
Which brilliant founders (of tech companies) have emerged from China? They have a large number of businesses but you can study metallurgy and learn how to make steel but that doesn't make you the kind of person who can create something truely new.
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Re:How Chinese Education System Helps and Hurts China by mebe on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @06:17AM (#2890606)
They come to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Li

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Re:How Chinese Education System Helps and Hurts China by galuggus on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @06:20AM (#2890612)
Alibaba group

douban

Sina

qq

BYD

innovative games

payment systems

group buying

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Re:How Chinese Education System Helps and Hurts China by wisty on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @10:09AM (#2891182)
What brilliant founders has the US produced in the last 10 years? Bugger all, except for Mark Zuckerberg, and a bunch who are not yet household names. China has only had a few years in which the average 20-something-year-old hacker had the resources to start a tech business. Even in China, many of the new tech businesses will not be famous yet.

Also, China's capital tends to be directed to "made-in-China" manufacturing, where they have a huge advantage. That leaves high-tech startups choked for funds. How many New York startups can you name really fast?

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Re:How Chinese Education System Helps and Hurts China by tomjen3 on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @12:21PM (#2891757)
Ten years is a little too short to see if somebody can build a company. Drew Huston springs to mind, though it might be too early to tell yet.
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Re:How Chinese Education System Helps and Hurts China by Nick_C on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @12:15AM (#2894068)
I know it is not tech, but serendipitously, I just watched a documentary on Shanghai last night. Ten years ago, number of billionaires was zero, today is 7,000. Just in Shanghai alone.
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