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Chinese Business Model: I Cut My Throat, My Rival Cuts His Throat, Winner Makes It To The Hospital

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Brian Karas
Sep 06, 2016
IPVM

This tweet was in relation to Uber, but it could just as easily have been about Hikvision:

What happens after someone 'wins'? Will prices go back up, or have they seized enough market share to stay in business with low margin/high volume?

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
Sep 06, 2016

It strikes me that there is no skill or talent in this approach, just a requirement for deeper pockets than 'the other guy' and a mid to long term view

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Ari Erenthal
Sep 06, 2016
Chesapeake & Midlantic

It strikes me that there is no skill or talent in this approach

Luck is a skill and stubbornness is a talent.

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John Honovich
Sep 06, 2016
IPVM

no skill or talent in this approach

Endearing yourself with the China Communist Party leadership surely takes skill.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
Sep 06, 2016

They have to 'endear' themselves to themselves?

"Hikvision was founded from the Chinese government's "No. 52 Research Institute", one of dozens of research institutes that the Chinese government has founded in various electronics / technology domains."

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John Honovich
Sep 06, 2016
IPVM

Even within the Party / government, there is lots of jostling for power, e.g., Economist 'Portrait of a Purge'

Surviving and getting favor over other state owned companies / divisions surely takes a skill.

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Ari Erenthal
Sep 06, 2016
Chesapeake & Midlantic

I want to party with these dudes.

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Undisclosed #2
Sep 06, 2016
IPVMU Certified

Jefferey He is (or was) quite familiar with "massive bloodletting".

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Michael Budalich
Sep 06, 2016
Genetec

A throat for a throat makes the whole world choke. lol

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Ari Erenthal
Sep 06, 2016
Chesapeake & Midlantic

I don't think you understand how throat cutting works.

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Undisclosed #2
Sep 06, 2016
IPVMU Certified

I don't think you understand how throat cutting works.

Nor do those who came up with the saying since either

You miss your carotid artery, and you go get some gauze and take the rest of the day off.

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You severe your carotid, in which case you will bleed out in maybe 2 minutes.

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John Honovich
May 08, 2019
IPVM

Reviving this, it looks like the US / China trade war is going this way:

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