Lessons from Richard Liu of JD.com

Richard Liu, founder and CEO of JD.com, connects entrepreneurship and leadership with an unwavering pursuit of success, centering the strategic question that outlasts short-term noise: how can a clear vision guide a business through sustained, long-term execution?

Lessons from Bob Xu of ZhenFund

Bob Xu, founder of ZhenFund and co-founder of New Oriental Education & Technology Group, brings an entrepreneur’s perspective to early-stage investing, pairing candid advice with sustained support for young founders navigating business building and the complexities of success.

Lessons from Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, an artificial intelligence pioneer, executive, investor, and author, joins technological foresight with a profound understanding of humanity, examining not only AI’s future but also the place people may hold within the world it creates.

Lessons from Zhang Ying of Dragons Paper Holdings Limited

Zhang Yin, founder and chairwoman of Nine Dragons Paper, turned modest beginnings into a global recycling business by moving waste paper from the United States to China, demonstrating how grit, foresight, and supply-chain insight can reveal industrial opportunity.

Lessons from Kathy Xu (Xu Xin) of Capital Today

Kathy Xu, also known as Xu Xin, founded Capital Today and became a leading Chinese venture capitalist by pairing sharp intuition with long-term vision and deep consumer understanding, a combination worth studying in both investing and business building.

Lessons from Hugo Shong of IDG Capital

Hugo Shong, founding chairman of IDG Capital and a pivotal figure in Chinese venture capital, pairs decades of technology and media investing with a central operating challenge: how to recognize durable opportunities while markets, companies, and entrepreneurial conditions keep changing.

Lessons from Alex Bouaziz of Deel

Alex Bouaziz, co-founder and CEO of Deel, tackles the complexity of hiring and paying international teams, using rapid company building to explore a larger question: what principles let entrepreneurs turn global talent into a workable future of work?

Lessons from Allen Stein Jr.

Alan Stein, Jr., a high-performance coach, speaker, and author with experience in elite basketball, translates sports principles into business and life, emphasizing fundamentals, process, and the durable practices that sustain performance while managing stress, stagnation, and burnout.

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