

How Big Will Ant Financial / Alipay Become? (28)
In this class, I talk about Ant Financial / Alipay, AI factories and the basics of payment platforms.
You can listen here or at my website for this podcast.
The graphic discussed is shown here.
The previous articles I cite are:
- From Big, Dumb Bureaucracies to Zero-Human Operations: The Holy Grail of the Digital Age (pt 1 of 2)
- How Ant Financial / Alipay is Building an AI Factory in Financial Services (pt 2 of 2)
This is part of Learning Goals: Level 4-5, with a focus on:
- #19 The Basics of Ant Financial and Payment Platforms
Concepts for this class:
- Advantages of Scale
- Economies of Scale and Scope
- Learning Advantages
- Disadvantages of Scale: Bureaucracy, Specialization, Scope, Scale, Complexity, Connectivity
- Payment Platforms
- AI Factories / Zero-Human Operations
Companies for this class:
- Ant Financial
- Alibaba
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I write and speak about digital China and Asia’s latest tech trends.
I also run Jeff’s Asia Tech Class, a podcast and subscription newsletter on the strategies of China / Asia tech companies.
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