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Early on, Carl Pei understood that China, consumer tech, and e-commerce would change the world. During a visit to China as a teenager, Pei discovered things that would eventually draw him into the booming world of consumer tech. Before he’d even managed to finish his bachelor’s thesis at university, Pei had run out of patience. “China was mentioned zero times, the big tech companies zero times, and we learned nothing about e-commerce,” the Swedish-Chinese entrepreneur once said of his time at the esteemed Stockholm School of Economics. Read more