Guest Episode 8 - Attention Factory by Mathhew Brennan - The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance

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Welcome to a very special episode (#8) of techLGTM.

In this episode we invited an amazing personality as our guest, Matthew Brennan, he is an expert on China Technology space, he has authored multiple books and is one of the most sought-after speakers on anything related to Chinese Technology. His recently released book "Attention Factory - The Story of TikTok & China's ByteDance" is getting rave reviews and is a must read for any entrepreneur.

In this episode Matthew tells us about his background and career, what motivated him to author this book. He also shared his views on Tencent, Misucal.ly, Toutiao. He touched upon similarities and differences between China and US technology ecosystem and future of Chinese technology.

Matthew also shared his views about political controversies regarding TikTok and how Joe Biden winning the elections might impact the future of ByteDance and other Chinese companies.

You can follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbrennanchina and buy his book from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L1578B6/

About techLGTM

A technology podcast hosted by Shashank Singh, Preet Raj and Amol Sharma. Here we discuss some latest and pressing topics related to technology. We analyze how technology impacts our day to day life and what the future of technology will look like.

Shashank Singh - Startup specialist with over two decades of experience. MBA in entrepreneurship and is an engineer.

Amol Sharma - Serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies in the space e-commerce, AR/VR and Blockchain. Amol is an active member of VR AR Association and is an avid angel investor.

Preet Raj - Seasoned engineering leader with Big Data. AI/ML and devops chops. MS and BE in Computer Science

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