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Topics covered include:

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• The global surge in 2012 of entrepreneurs starting ridesharing companies, nowhere moreso than China\\xa0
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• Didi CEO Cheng Wei and investor Wang Gang\\u2019s backgrounds at Alibaba, first entrepreneurial effort in Momo, and Momo\\u2019s pivot to Didi Dache
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• The culling of the ridesharing herd in China down to Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache through brutal competition and involvement of the \\u201cbig three\\u201d Chinese internet companies\\xa0
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• Rise of the Chinese messaging apps and associated mobile payments, and their impact on ridesharing
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• The 2015 merger between Didi and Kuaidi, brokered in part by Russian VC Yuri Milner\\n
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• Uber\\u2019s decision to enter the Chinese market, and early success with investment and support from Baidu
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• The first meeting between Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei in 2015\\u2014which does not go well\\n
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• Subsequent \\u201cscorched earth\\u201d competition between Didi and Uber throughout 2015-16
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• Negotiating an armistice: Uber\\u2019s agreement to sell its Chinese operations to Didi in late 2016
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• End of the war, or just the beginning? January 2017: Didi invests $100M in Brazilian Uber competitor 99\\n
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• Sustainable growth, and building moats versus scorching earth
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\\xa0 The Carve Out:\\xa0

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• Ben: \\xa0Taming the Mammoth on Wait But Why
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• David: Conversations with Tyler Podcast by Tyler Cowen, co-author of the Marginal Revolution blog
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• Brad: Yuval Noah Harari (author of \\xa0Sapiens)\\u2019s new book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow\\n
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