Hi, listeners! Our podcast Evolving for the Next Billion has passed the 1 million downloads milestone, thanks to your continuing support from all over the world! And we’re approaching the 100th episode for the show. To celebrate this humble but exciting achievement with our listeners, we would love to feature you in the upcoming episode 100! 

Tell us your name, where you live and your proudest achievement over the past 2 years! Describe that pivotal moment when you realize you’ve grown - as a founder, a friend, or as a person. 

You can submit by emailing the recording directly to nextbn@ggvc.com. 
A mobile phone recording would do but make sure you record in a quiet place. 

Looking forward to hearing from you!

1 MILLION Downloads! You Are Invited To Be On The 100th Episode!

Hi, everyone. Today’s show is a rerun as our portfolio company Grab is officially listed on Nasdaq today. We thought it would be cool to bring back the interview we recorded with GGV’s managing partner Jixun Foo back in 2019. He shared how he first met Grab’s founder Anthony, the parallel between Grab and Didi and why he decided to lead Grab’s Series B while it was still GrabTaxi. Enjoy! 

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Jixun Foo Of GGV Why We Led Grab’s Series B (rerun)

Today’s episode is a live recording from the recent BayBrazil LatAm Summit, where Hans did a fireside chat moderated by its founder and CEO Margarise Correa.  

BayBrazil is a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing together the Brazilian-American ecosystem of professionals & businesses in the Bay Area.  

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Live From BayBrazil Hans On What Excites Him About LatAm

Happy New Year, everyone! For the 1st episode of 2022, we brought you the yearly reflection from our global managing partner Jixun Foo, in which he shared how he experienced 2021, the new norm for global venture capitalists, and some of the most exciting startups he has seen. Enjoy!

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Jixun Foo of GGV: 2021 is a year of dramatic changes

In this episode, we asked Hans about his 2021, in which he shared his view on Web3, investing at an unprecedented pace, ESG, and the global capital market in 2021. Stay tuned till the end for some proudest moments shared by our listeners over the past 2 years!

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Episode 100: Hans On Web3, Investing At An Unprecedented Pace, ESG And Proudest Moments

Today on the show, we have the cofounders of BUD - Risa and Shawn. BUD is a global virtual platform for Gen Z and Gen Alpha to create and share 3D interactive experiences. It is also one of the world's largest 3D item markets. 

Before founding BUD, Risa and Shawn were colleagues at Snapchat where they worked as interactive and software engineers. Risa graduated from Cornell in 2017 with a degree in Computer science and math. With a deep interest in computer graphics, she started building her own indie game since college. After graduation, she joined the Snapchat AR team as an interactive engineer working on frontier AR experience and the developer community Snapchat’s AR engine.  

Shawn graduated from Rutgers with a major in Computer Science. He interned at Meta in 2015 as a software engineer working on video-ads recommendation in the news feed. In early 2016, he joined Snapchat full-time, where he worked on Android performance optimization, rewrite, and friending recommendation. 

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Risa And Shawn Of BUD A Metaverse Created By And For Gen Z

Today we have a bonus episode in which GGV’s managing partner Jenny Lee shared why she invested in BUD, existing companies in her game tech portfolio, and her take on NFT.

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(Bonus) Jenny Lee of GGV: Investing in BUD, Game Tech and NFT

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. Seed-to-growth stage investments across Consumer/New Retail, Social/Digital & Internet, Enterprise/Cloud and Frontier Tech sectors.

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