How Big Will Ant Financial / Alipay Become? (28)

The Tech Strategy Podcast

English - May 06, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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In this class, I talk about Ant Financial / Alipay, AI factories and the basics of payment platforms.

You can listen here or at my website for this podcast.

The graphic discussed is shown here.

The previous articles I cite are:

From Big, Dumb Bureaucracies to Zero-Human Operations: The Holy Grail of the Digital Age (pt 1 of 2)How Ant Financial / Alipay is Building an AI Factory in Financial Services (pt 2 of 2)

This is part of Learning Goals: Level 4-5, with a focus on:

#19 The Basics of Ant Financial and Payment Platforms

Concepts for this class:

Advantages of ScaleEconomies of Scale and ScopeLearning AdvantagesDisadvantages of Scale: Bureaucracy, Specialization, Scope, Scale, Complexity, ConnectivityPayment PlatformsAI Factories / Zero-Human Operations

Companies for this class:

Ant FinancialAlibaba

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I write and speak about digital China and Asia’s latest tech trends.

I also run Jeff’s Asia Tech Class, a podcast and subscription newsletter on the strategies of China / Asia tech companies.

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