How lessons from the Chinese Internet helped Castbox CEO build a popular global podcasting app

The company has drawn on features popular in Chinese social apps, such as a community aspect that lets users discuss podcast episodes in a comments section. — SCMP

When Renee Wang set her sights on working for Google, she quit her job at a startup and spent the next eight months preparing for interviews and submitting multiple resumes in the hopes that it would increase her chances of landing job interviews with the search engine giant.

So when Wang quit after just four years at Google, sold her apartment in Beijing and invested her savings to create podcasting app Castbox, her friends thought she was crazy to give up a job that paid well and had allowed her to live in Japan and Ireland.