Kai-fu Lee: the comfort of Taiwanese entrepreneurs offsets their innate advantage

Sina Science and technology news April 30, kai-Fu Lee said in an interview with Taiwanese media yesterday that the young people of Taiwan integrated the characteristics of Chinese and Western culture, creativity and opportunities are many, and the mainland entrepreneurs full of enthusiasm and dedication. In contrast, he argues, young Taiwanese are struggling and comfortable, and will eventually be offset, even if they have an innate advantage. Lee was recently selected by the United States "Times" magazine as the global hundred influential figures. The reason for the election is that Kai-fu Lee in the rapid development of the Chinese mainland, through social media to send a rational voice, to show the views and influence. Kai-Fu Lee is one of the most "serious" people on both sides of the strait who use the new media, and he speaks daily in social media such as Weibo. Social media, he says, allow young people to see new things and ideas everywhere, but it's important not to believe who they are, but to know that everything can have a different perspective and develop the ability to think critically. Kai-Fu Lee believes that there must be a young voice, a long and experienced voice in an inclusive and democratic Internet society. As for the youth entrepreneurship problem, Lee said, Taiwanese entrepreneurs are very creative, but compared to the United States is a creative paradise, the characteristics of the Chinese people are diligent, can put forward the local service, the important thing is "full investment"; Many entrepreneurial teams in the mainland market size, not necessarily to the United States. Kai-Fu Lee said that the idea of their own if not persistent and self-confidence, entrepreneurship will not succeed. Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft, Google and other important positions in 2009, founded innovative workshops to help young entrepreneurial team to find funds, contacts. Lee said that more than three years to invest in innovation Workshop about 50 enterprises, about 23 successfully made the first round of investment, but also the acquisition of enterprises, good results.