Media

  • Bloomberg TV: ‘The First Superapp’ Author Kevin Shimota on Tencent

    Kevin joins Yvonne Man and David Ingles on Bloomberg Markets: China Open to discuss Tencent’s future in light of the second-quarter results from China’s internet giants.

  • WSJ: What the Heck Is a ‘Super App’ and Why Are Elon Musk, Evan Spiegel and Jack Dorsey So Interested?

    Kevin speaks with Christopher Mims from the Wall Street Journal about the superapp origin story, key defining features, and how the West is following suit.

  • BBC World News: Chinese Tech Giant Tencent Posts First Ever Sales Fall in History

    Kevin weighs in on BBC Asia Business Report’s coverage of Tencent’s first ever sales fall, outlining his reasons for the drop and predictions for the Chinese tech sector as a whole.

  • SupChina: Ex-WeChat Exec Tells the Inside Story of WeChat & the rise of Superapps

    Kevin joins Lizzi Lee on SupChina: China Edge to discuss China's digital platform innovations and how their recipes for success could be replicated beyond China.

  • CLSA: Secrets of the Superapp, a book talk with Kevin Shimota

    Kevin speaks with Alexandra Lee from CLSA U Book Club about the global superapp race, why mobile payments took China by storm and how its tech ecosystem remains so different from the rest of the world.

  • Washington State China Relations Council: Author Talk with Kevin Shimota

    Kevin joins Nor Coquillard and Man Wang on WSCRC to talk about WeChat’s creation, the psyche of its founder, and how the superapp framework could be reproduced beyond China.

  • The Nanjinger: WeChat Rocks; What’s Behind the World’s First Super App?

    Kevin sat down with Frank Hossack from The Nanjinger Magazine to discuss WeChat’s origin story, prioritisation of user experience, and answer reader questions about the superapp mega trend.

  • Mahindra University School of Management: The Global Race to Superapps Webinar

    Kevin speaks at Mahindra University School of Management’s webinar on superapps, discussing what they are, how to learn from them, and what to expect next.

  • A Seat at the Table Podcast: What We Can Learn from SuperApps that Could Make Any Business More Competitive

    Jane Singer talks with Kevin about what makes Superapps so attractive and how the Superapp framework can be applied to almost any business.

  • Conversations & Insights with Dr. Efi Pylarinou: An Insider's Perspective on the 1st Superapp

    Kevin talks with Efi Pylarinou on the unique ecosystem design of WeChat and juxtapositions to equivalent Western apps and BigTech companies.

  • eXpotential Podcast: The Secrets of Tencent's Platform Strategy

    Kevin traces WeChat's history with Norbert Gehrke, former MD at Goldman & Barclays, from the beginnings as the QQ desktop messenger, the addition of "push to talk", company pages, payments, and finally mini-programs.

  • China Europe International Business School: A Foreigner's Guide to Working at WeChat

    CEIBS MBA Admissions sat down with Kevin to get his views on the next superapp, working alongside the 'father of WeChat' Allen Zhang, and how he had a hand in creating what was possibly the world's largest QR code.

  • Dartmouth Tuck Center for Digital Strategies: Author Talk with Kevin Shimota

    Join the Center for Digital Strategies in welcoming the author of The First Super App, Kevin Shimota, for a discussion about WeChat, super apps, and Chinese software innovation, moderated by Kevin Collins T’99.

  • University of Washington Global Leadership Summit: a Conversation with Kevin Shimota

    A conversation with Kevin Shimota, former senior executive at WeChat (Tencent), the world’s first superapp. Kevin will answer questions regarding his experience at the UW and steps he took that helped him post graduation.

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