Livecast #4: Deep Dive into Agora $API with Kevin Xu of Interconnected.blog

<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal">Recorded Thursday 2/10/21.<br>Kevin, now at Github, is the founder of interconnected.blog, a bilingual newsletter on the intersections of tech, business, money, geopolitics, and US-Asia relations.<br>We go over:<br>What is Agora? It's a platform as a service company.<br>The origin story of Tony Zhao the CEO who was previously at WebEx &amp; then CTO at YY, where he achieved substantial success.<br>Agora's technology &amp; business model, which is developer facing and self service and usage based<br>What happens when there are more Chinese companies like Agora building infrastructure technologies? Does innovation have to be something super different / sexy or can it also be arising out of battle-tested scaling-up technologies, like Agora? And finally, Agora's latest acquisition, another Chinese company called Easymob.<br><...