Show Notes
Welcome to Episode One of the SustainaDAO podcast. Our first guest is Jimmy Shi, Venture Partner of BlueRun Ventures China. In this episode, Jimmy shares his experience as a former entrepreneur and current investor in Blockchain and Web3 companies, offers his views on how this down economy and the years to come may shape the companies he invests in, and hopes that up and coming entrepreneurs will heed his advice as an experienced player in these developing spaces.
Jimmy Shi joined BlueRun Ventures in 2019 and is based in Beijing. He focuses on early-stage investment in corporate services and hard technology. Jimmy used to serve as a global R&D executive at Oracle in the United States and led a multinational R&D team dedicated to product R&D in the fields of middleware, mobile databases, and converged communications. He was also responsible for the global market expansion and customer operation management for relevant products. He has over ten years of experience in the IT industry and multinational enterprise management. Jimmy founded Duomi Music, which has become a leading company in the field of independent mobile music services with a DAU of over 7 million. Jimmy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.
SustainaDAO Non-fungible Talk is a show about all things DAO and Web3 from the team of SustainaDAO. This podcast covers everything about blockchain technology and sustainability. You’ll hear about the most current advances in the metaverse, crypto, DAO, and how we can create sustainable value in the blockchain world. SustainaDAO is a decentralized protocol that promotes social and environmental balance with blockchain technology. Each week, your host, Clarice Qiu, will interview entrepreneurs and educators from top universities to decode the blockchain market trends. This show is for builders, social innovators, sustainability enthusiasts, and anyone who is curious about Web3 technologies.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Jimmy’s background and path to joining BlueRun Ventures
- As a former entrepreneur, Jimmy’s investment focus is on helping other entrepreneurs to enter the global marketplace and build a new future world
- We hear about the many fascinating portfolio companies Jimmy is currently involved with
- BlueRun has a wide focus on areas such as enterprise software, biotech, healthcare tech, new energies, computing cloud, and consumer tech
- Trends over the next few years: Blockchain and Web3 cannot take off until they enter all traditional areas and everyday life
- At a recent Blockchain conference, the focus was on innovation, decentralization, infrastructure, and scalability
- There will be even more security risks in a decentralized Web3 environment, but the collaborative mindset beats the “kill all” zero-sum attitude in Web2
- Even though there is a current economic downturn, BlueRun focuses on long-term, resilient, and innovative investments
- BlueRun and its investment decisions
- BlueRun’s expansion into the “rising tiger” of China in 2005, supporting talented Chinese ventures entering the global market
- Long-term growth, equality, and abundance mindset – Web3/Blockchain and sustainability
- Jimmy’s advice to startup founders: don’t be too idealistic, manage your growth by focusing on core deliverables, and be pragmatic and strategic with every move
- Advice for entering the global market - have a global mindset, understand the cultures you are entering, work together, and don’t subscribe to the old Web2 way of “kill all your competitors"
- Contact Jimmy if BlueRun sounds like an investor you’d like to partner with, no matter where you’re located
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