
I didn’t feel strongly about the last point. These days, when I do things, I first look for benchmarks and find the best performers. In fact, China’s big tech companies follow the same strategy—benchmarking against top overseas products, adapting them, and gradually optimizing and upgrading them to fit their own ecosystems and needs. Tencent, Alibaba, JD.com—none of them started any other way. They copied to make money, then slowly studied the original models.

