No More Hustleporn: 1/ This article on Pinduoduo (the 3rd largest e-commerce platform in China) is ostensibly focused on their new US venture Temu, but it quickly devolves into the most outrageous profile of Chinese corp
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1/ This article on Pinduoduo (the 3rd largest e-commerce platform in China) is ostensibly focused on their new US venture Temu, but it quickly devolves into the most outrageous profile of Chinese corporate culture that I’ve ever read
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2/ It starts out talking about how Temu’s org chart is structured into two warring factions trying to take each other over
To be fair this is relatively tame - organizing two competing teams on a single product is a relatively common practice in China tech
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3/ Every new customer on Temu is randomly assigned to one of multiple internal teams, who compete to drive the highest sales or face dissolution
Again, this is sort of a common China tech practice, so not so much a Pinduoduo-specific thing
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4/ Now here’s where things get, um, interesting
Pinduoduo asks every job candidate whether they are rural, poor, and / or financially constrained, because their “big data analysis” has profiled these kind of candidates as the most hardworking
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5/ Very interesting 😬
“Self will is not important”
“If a directive is issued at a company meeting, subordinates cannot refuse”
“This is related to Colin Huang’s ideology, in which only hierarchy matters, not right or wrong”
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6/ Quite the profile of Pinduoduo’s COO
“She is like a replica of Colin Huang, with very similar personalities, thinking, work methods, and even speech patterns”
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7/ Employees are in “complete isolation between departments”
Nobody knows what anyone else is doing
“Due to the use of nicknames for internal communication, colleagues do not know each other’s real names.”(?!?!)
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8/ Just a reminder, this is a $100B market cap company publicly traded on the NASDAQ lol
Full article here:
thelowdown.momentum.asia/inside-temu-th…