Rui Ma Part 1 | The Tech Buzz Of China

<p><strong>Topics Discussed and Key Points:</strong></p><p>●      Rui speaks on her work with the Tech Buzz China podcast and community</p><p>●      How accurate is the data we are getting today from the fundraising world in China?</p><p>●      What is it like to do due diligence on Chinese tech companies looking for investors?</p><p>●      Rui describes the trip she conducted in 2019 to bring foreign investors into China</p><p>●      Trends in China’s tech scene today</p><p>●      The impact that new data privacy regulations have had on social media in China</p><p>●      Business trends that are commonly misunderstood by foreign investors</p><p>●      Western digital ecosystems versus China’s</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Episode Summary:</strong></p><p>Today on The Negotiation, we speak with Rui Ma, an angel investor and fund consultant whose work involves identifying superior-tech investment opportunities in both the US and China.</p><p>She is the creator of Tech Buzz China, a paid community for investors and operators interested in China tech. Rui also co-hosts the biweekly Tech Buzz China podcast.</p><p>Finally, Rui is the Executive Chairman of the nonprofit Rookie Fund, which aims to be the best student-run fund for discovering and investing in student entrepreneurs in Asia.</p><p>Asked how often companies release prevalent misleading or outright fraudulent numbers to potential investors, Rui says that transparency has become the norm in recent years, especially in the tech world. She adds that doing due diligence on tech companies in China is virtually no different from how one would do so in the U.S.</p><p>In any case, she contends that due diligence is less about determining the accuracy of data, but about understanding the wider economic and even political or cultural context around the company’s performance.</p><p>What is more important is doing “character diligence” on management, and this can only be done effectively from having extensive experience on the ground as well as being in