Amazon helps Shenzhen ex-Googler turn mom’s money into a billion


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  • Monday, 21 May 2018

An employee walks through a hallway at the Anker Innovations Technology Co. office in Shenzhen, China, on Friday, May 18, 2018. Anker sells products ranging from smartphone chargers to portable power banks on Amazon.com. and it's getting even bigger after recently reaching a deal to put products in almost 4,000 Walmart Inc. and 900 Best Buy Co. stores in the U.S. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

After Steven Yang left his coveted job at Google, he asked his mother whether he should take venture-capital money to fund his business idea. 

If his online consumer-electronics enterprise was a risky bet, she told him, go with the venture capitalists. But if building the business into something great was his destiny, he instead should use her money from a pharmaceutical career in China. 

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