Duncan Clark
@duncanljclark.bsky.social
Investor and advisor in tech, Asia and beyond. www.duncanclark.com
Insightful feature on Alibaba from CNBC Senior Tech Reporter Arjun Kharpal.
Founded in 1999 Alibaba is just 26 years in to the cheeky 102 year mission Jack Ma gave the company to span the 20th, 21st and 22nd centuries…
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Founded in 1999 Alibaba is just 26 years in to the cheeky 102 year mission Jack Ma gave the company to span the 20th, 21st and 22nd centuries…
www.cnbc.com/video/2025/1...
The business behind Alibaba: How China’s tech titan makes billions
From a Hangzhou startup to a global tech powerhouse, uncover the strategies that turned Alibaba into a multi-billion-dollar empire.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Insightful feature on Alibaba from CNBC Senior Tech Reporter Arjun Kharpal.
Founded in 1999 Alibaba is just 26 years in to the cheeky 102 year mission Jack Ma gave the company to span the 20th, 21st and 22nd centuries…
www.cnbc.com/video/2025/1...
Founded in 1999 Alibaba is just 26 years in to the cheeky 102 year mission Jack Ma gave the company to span the 20th, 21st and 22nd centuries…
www.cnbc.com/video/2025/1...
In this week’s DuncansDispatch we visit Clerkenwell in London to visit locations featured in the hit Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, the British spy drama adapted from Mick Herron’s Slough House novels.
Follow in the footsteps of the notoriously unhealthy Jackson Lamb, including breakfast at Beppes
Follow in the footsteps of the notoriously unhealthy Jackson Lamb, including breakfast at Beppes
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In this week’s DuncansDispatch we visit Clerkenwell in London to visit locations featured in the hit Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, the British spy drama adapted from Mick Herron’s Slough House novels.
Follow in the footsteps of the notoriously unhealthy Jackson Lamb, including breakfast at Beppes
Follow in the footsteps of the notoriously unhealthy Jackson Lamb, including breakfast at Beppes
👓 A murder mystery in old Beijing… 🔎
On this episode of #DuncansDispatch, we join Paul French author of #MidnightinPeking for a walking tour of the key locations in the unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner. Thanks @wildchina.bsky.social
On this episode of #DuncansDispatch, we join Paul French author of #MidnightinPeking for a walking tour of the key locations in the unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner. Thanks @wildchina.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
👓 A murder mystery in old Beijing… 🔎
On this episode of #DuncansDispatch, we join Paul French author of #MidnightinPeking for a walking tour of the key locations in the unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner. Thanks @wildchina.bsky.social
On this episode of #DuncansDispatch, we join Paul French author of #MidnightinPeking for a walking tour of the key locations in the unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner. Thanks @wildchina.bsky.social
When you've got to go, you've got to go… but finding a clean, comfortable restroom in the city can be a real challenge.
In this #DuncansDispatch from NYC we are exploring how @yedi.app (a start-up I'm backing launching its consumer app in coming weeks) is redefining the public restroom experience.
In this #DuncansDispatch from NYC we are exploring how @yedi.app (a start-up I'm backing launching its consumer app in coming weeks) is redefining the public restroom experience.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
When you've got to go, you've got to go… but finding a clean, comfortable restroom in the city can be a real challenge.
In this #DuncansDispatch from NYC we are exploring how @yedi.app (a start-up I'm backing launching its consumer app in coming weeks) is redefining the public restroom experience.
In this #DuncansDispatch from NYC we are exploring how @yedi.app (a start-up I'm backing launching its consumer app in coming weeks) is redefining the public restroom experience.
🕶️ New episode of #DuncansDispatch - this time from 沖縄 Okinawa 🌺 and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
Shoutout to Koshu Kunii, General Partner at Lifetime Ventures 👓
#StartupEcosystem #Biotech #Climatetech #Innovation #Sustainability #ScienceMeetsNature #JapanTravel #MetaRayBan
Shoutout to Koshu Kunii, General Partner at Lifetime Ventures 👓
#StartupEcosystem #Biotech #Climatetech #Innovation #Sustainability #ScienceMeetsNature #JapanTravel #MetaRayBan
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🕶️ New episode of #DuncansDispatch - this time from 沖縄 Okinawa 🌺 and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
Shoutout to Koshu Kunii, General Partner at Lifetime Ventures 👓
#StartupEcosystem #Biotech #Climatetech #Innovation #Sustainability #ScienceMeetsNature #JapanTravel #MetaRayBan
Shoutout to Koshu Kunii, General Partner at Lifetime Ventures 👓
#StartupEcosystem #Biotech #Climatetech #Innovation #Sustainability #ScienceMeetsNature #JapanTravel #MetaRayBan
Good to join from Beijing another Duncan - Duncan Hewitt - on his podcast 'China in Context' for SOAS University of London to chat China tech, AI and all the rest...
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Innovation in China — After the 'DeepSeek moment'
Podcast Episode · China In Context · 10/03/2025 · 39m
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October 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Good to join from Beijing another Duncan - Duncan Hewitt - on his podcast 'China in Context' for SOAS University of London to chat China tech, AI and all the rest...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
October 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
on.ft.com/4nSibXx What China wants from Europe
Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers
Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)
Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers
Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)
What China wants from Europe
As the US abandons the world order it built, China builds its own — how should Europe respond?
on.ft.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
on.ft.com/4nSibXx What China wants from Europe
Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers
Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)
Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers
Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)
What China wants from Europe
As the US abandons the world order it built, China builds its own — how should Europe respond?
on.ft.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
on.ft.com/4nSibXx What China wants from Europe
Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers
Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)
Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers
Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)
Looking forward to co-hosting in Paris the inaugural China Summer Summit on July 9th with new Asia Society France Co-Chair Lionel de Saint-Exupéry and event co-organizers Salzburg Global and ASPI's Center for China Analysis.
Great line-up with more to come! Email rnahas@asiasociety.org for info.
Great line-up with more to come! Email rnahas@asiasociety.org for info.
April 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Looking forward to co-hosting in Paris the inaugural China Summer Summit on July 9th with new Asia Society France Co-Chair Lionel de Saint-Exupéry and event co-organizers Salzburg Global and ASPI's Center for China Analysis.
Great line-up with more to come! Email rnahas@asiasociety.org for info.
Great line-up with more to come! Email rnahas@asiasociety.org for info.
"Eddie is winning plaudits internally for having trimmed the old and built the new. Jack [Ma] and Joe [Tsai] ultimately made the decision to bet on him and it's paying off"
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March 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"Eddie is winning plaudits internally for having trimmed the old and built the new. Jack [Ma] and Joe [Tsai] ultimately made the decision to bet on him and it's paying off"
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In other news... sharing thoughts this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition on the significance of Jack Ma's return to a greater degree of prominence in China
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Alibaba founder Jack Ma returns, 5 years after largely disappearing from public view
NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Duncan Clark about the return of Jack Ma, founder of online Chinese retailer Alibaba. The tech exec had gone quiet after comments critical of China in 2020.
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March 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In other news... sharing thoughts this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition on the significance of Jack Ma's return to a greater degree of prominence in China
www.npr.org/2025/03/01/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/01/n...
Reposted by Duncan Clark
A point the great @sabfis3.bsky.social was making to me in Berlin a couple of days ago. See also her forthcoming book - “Chauvinism”
Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package.
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Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea's presidential elections
Disgruntled young men who resent feminism are the focus of candidates vying to be president.
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December 3, 2024 at 7:31 PM
A point the great @sabfis3.bsky.social was making to me in Berlin a couple of days ago. See also her forthcoming book - “Chauvinism”
Excited to join the Board of Rest of World, which with c. 86% of the population outside the West is a big Rest :) restofworld.org/inside/rest-...
Rest of World welcomes Duncan Clark to our Board of Directors
We are thrilled to announce that Duncan Clark has joined the Rest of World Board of Directors. Duncan is the Chairman of BDA, an investment advisory firm he founded in 1994. After four years at Morgan...
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December 3, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Excited to join the Board of Rest of World, which with c. 86% of the population outside the West is a big Rest :) restofworld.org/inside/rest-...
Wonderful 'Laowai Lounge' 老外饭局 2nd edition tonight from @asiasocietyfrance.bsky.social at the amazing Imperial Treasure Paris
November 28, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Wonderful 'Laowai Lounge' 老外饭局 2nd edition tonight from @asiasocietyfrance.bsky.social at the amazing Imperial Treasure Paris
After the rain, inspecting the Palais Royal and the Louvre...
November 20, 2024 at 8:28 AM
After the rain, inspecting the Palais Royal and the Louvre...
Here comes the Son! (Masayoshi that is) - by FT Editor Lionel Barber in his engrossing new book 'Gambling Man' about SoftBank's founder.
Hosted by Asia Society France and the Comité d'Échanges Franco-Japonais + Essec.
Grab your seat - or your Zoom link - here.
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Hosted by Asia Society France and the Comité d'Échanges Franco-Japonais + Essec.
Grab your seat - or your Zoom link - here.
asiasociety.org/france/event...
November 19, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Here comes the Son! (Masayoshi that is) - by FT Editor Lionel Barber in his engrossing new book 'Gambling Man' about SoftBank's founder.
Hosted by Asia Society France and the Comité d'Échanges Franco-Japonais + Essec.
Grab your seat - or your Zoom link - here.
asiasociety.org/france/event...
Hosted by Asia Society France and the Comité d'Échanges Franco-Japonais + Essec.
Grab your seat - or your Zoom link - here.
asiasociety.org/france/event...
