Kristen Wang

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A Continent I Didn't Know

Seven short notes from Professor Chen Taotao's Latin America course at Tsinghua — written not as an expert, but as someone with a China–US crossover seat who just discovered how much the view was missing.

  1. 1Distance is a form of ignorance
  2. 2Two ways to fight povertysoon
  3. 3Nubank barely spent on ads. So how did 100 million people show up?soon
  4. 4The port that moved the Pacificsoon
  5. 5What a former deputy finance minister taught me about trust in moneysoon
  6. 6Hearing my country described from the other sidesoon
  7. 7Structure before symptomsoon

CEO Rulebook

Distilling Brian Halligan's conversations with operators into a working rulebook — the lessons I want on hand while building, written down before I need them. First chapters coming.

Frontier notes

XR and Physical AI, from the scouting years in Paris and Zurich — Lynx, the Essilor orbit, and what European deep tech taught me about hardware. Occasional, hands-on, opinionated.

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Selected posts

A few things from X worth keeping past the feed's lifespan.