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Shen Lu

@shenlulushen
28 posts
2025-09-15
Signed off at @WSJ with one last story about my hometown. With @hannahmiao_ and @ZyuelingSH, we looked Hangzhou's AI boom, rooted in its entrepreneurial tradition, tech ecosystem and a government willing & able to invest big. That's a wrap. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-09-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the local government built a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west

or Hangzhou at all. Waiting for the next Deepseek “surreal” trauma moment, only to repress it soon afterwards... Time to reckon with the new world and rethink our place in it. S.L....

2024-05-29
Teamwork from me, @cdriebusch and @raffaelehuang on what's causing Shein's US IPO delays and its switch of efforts toward a LSE, which could happen soon, & Beijing's role in all the challenges facing what would be 1 of biggest IPO in years. Hint: cotton. https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-05-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Shein, which filed for a US IPO in November 2023, became stuck in US-China tensions; Shein, founded in 2012 in China, has never sold products in the country

The fast-fashion giant aimed to bridge the divide between Beijing and Washington, but hopes for a U.S. IPO have faded @shenlulushen @cdriebusch @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/....

A deep dive into Shein's identity crisis amid US-China tensions, which have all but thwarted its US IPO plans, through the experience of its executive chairman Donald Tang. It's a narrative reflective of the times we live in. Please give it a read - https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-05-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Shein, which filed for a US IPO in November 2023, became stuck in US-China tensions; Shein, founded in 2012 in China, has never sold products in the country

The fast-fashion giant aimed to bridge the divide between Beijing and Washington, but hopes for a U.S. IPO have faded @shenlulushen @cdriebusch @raffaelehuang https://www.wsj.com/....

2022-12-26
When Kathy Benetti first went on Temu, she wasn't planning to splurge. But as she browsed the site, she was struck by the low prices. Before she knew it, she had 14 items in her shopping cart totaling $90. Sounds familiar? https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-12-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sensor Tower: Pinduoduo's marketplace Temu app had 10.8M US installations since September 1 and became the most downloaded US app from November 1 to December 14

Temu, a marketplace with deep discounts and copious coupons, has become the most downloaded mobile app in the U.S.  — Copy Link

2022-12-25
When Kathy Benetti first went on Temu, she wasn't planning to splurge. But as she browsed the site, she was struck by the low prices. Before she knew it, she had 14 items in her shopping cart totaling $90. Sounds familiar? https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-12-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sensor Tower: Pinduoduo's marketplace Temu gained 10.8M installations in the US since Sep. 1, and became the most downloaded US app between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14

Temu, a marketplace with deep discounts and copious coupons, has become the most downloaded mobile app in the U.S.  — Copy Link Tweets: @shenlulushen and @timcohn Tweets: @shenlulu...

2022-09-03
Pinduoduo's US site, Temu, doesn't show links to Pinduoduo. Its business in the US is operated a Delaware-based company. And a Singapore entity, headed by a Pinduoduo exec, runs Temu's non-US business. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
2022-09-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Pinduoduo launched US shopping site Temu on September 1, the Chinese e-commerce giant's first major push overseas, following online fast fashion retailer Shein

Wall Street Journal :

2022-07-14
I explored New Oriental's sensational pivot to selling produce via livestreaming. Those who have taken New Oriental classes know immediately why their marketing works well (at least for now) - https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-07-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

New Oriental, one of China's largest private-tutoring companies, reinvents itself as a livestream grocery service on Douyin, after China's regulatory crackdown

2021-12-25
Intel has experienced quite a few backlashes in China in 2021. In March it offended feminists, now it has ticked off nationalists. Hard for multinationals to do business in China these days. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-12-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law

Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Liza Lin / Wall Street Jo...

2021-12-24
Intel has experienced quite a few backlashes in China in 2021. In March it offended feminists, now it has ticked off nationalists. Hard for multinationals to do business in China these days. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-12-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law

Tech companies withdraw from in-person CES Simon Sharwood / The Register : Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang Agence France-Presse : In...

2021-12-23
Intel has experienced quite a few backlashes in China in 2021. In March it offended feminists, now it has ticked off nationalists. Hard for multinationals to do business in China these days. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-12-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Intel apologizes following backlash after telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law

- Brand ambassador Wang Junkai cuts ties with the U.S. chipmaker  — Intel asked suppliers not to use labor, products from Xinjiang

2021-08-13
NEW: Alibaba details plan to make it a better place for women. It's set up a committee to handle sexual misconduct prevention, a team to “examine and eradicate inappropriate workplace behavior” & it's writing a sexual harassment prevention code of conduct. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-08-13 View on X
Protocol

In response to internal calls for reform, Alibaba says it will form a committee of five female execs to handle workplace sexual harassment and related issues

Shen Lu / Protocol :

2021-07-16
Eager to hear what the gender pay gap is at Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, DiDi, ByteDance and the likes in China. Oh wait, they need to release their gender figures first. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-16 View on X
Protocol

In a 2020 diversity report, Twitter says women make up 43% of its staff and have equal salary to men in equivalent jobs, but only earn ~37% of its total payroll

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol :

2021-02-21
Read my latest: an ex-ByteDancer walks me through the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation operation and execution in China. They also shared how they felt about developing technologies that censor speech. 1/ https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...

Political speech comprised a tiny fraction of deleted content b/c Chinese people know what not to talk & hello, it's Douyin! Most censored content: porn, nudity, graphic images, curse words, unauthorized live streaming sales and content that violated copyrights. 4/
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...

ByteDance's content moderation policymakers + the team that creates core tech to support its content moderation operation + about 20,000 content moderators, have helped shield ByteDance from major political repercussions and achieve commercial success. 2/
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...

After their own social media account got “bombed” last year, they realized, “I had helped build the system that censored accounts like mine. I was helping to bury myself in China's ever-expanding cyber grave.” /end
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...

Anything users upload is closely monitored and screened by both machines and humans. 👇This flowchart from a report ByteDance published in 2019 illustrates how live-stream moderation works. & My source also explained the process to me in my story: https://www.protocol.com/... 6/ https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...

But political speech still looms large. ByteDance and other UGC platforms can't afford to fail to delete politically sensitive content. Internet regulators would issue frequent directives to its Content Quality Center, which oversees ByteDance's content moderation operation. 5/
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...

Not many Chinese tech companies have so many resources dedicated to moderating content. This is why other user-generated content platforms in China have nothing on ByteDance's popular products. 3/
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...

How do people feel about building the system?"The tools I helped create can help fight dangers like fake news.But in China, one primary function of these technologies is to censor speech and erase collective memories of major events, however infrequently this function gets used."
2021-02-21 View on X
Protocol

An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies

because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...