I have been spending time playing a game called Family Farm Seaside for a little over a year. They just released a major version that is buggy and not well thought out. Up until now, I was not curious about the company that made it. But I was motivated and surprised what I found and the implications if President Trump ramps up the trade wars.<\/p>\n
So the company is named FunPlus and they do have a coherent web site Here.<\/a><\/p>\n So it turns out the company is located in Beijing China! The company was founded by and is led by a man named Andy Zhong<\/a>. He claims Silicon Valley roots and his LinkedIn profile lists as a young man (he is 30) he was working for AT&T Bell Labs and ask.com.<\/p>\n So that is pretty boring. Then I decided to see who owns the funplus.com website. It is a GoDaddy registration that comes back to Qi Lu, who claims an address in Union City, California. Now he and what he represents is seriously interesting.<\/p>\n Wikipedia Article on Qi Lu<\/a><\/p>\n Qi Lu was raised in rural China, where his parents hid from Mao’s cultural revolution.\u00a0 \u00a0He came to America and got his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.\u00a0 He wound up at Microsoft being the EVP over Bing, Skype and Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n He left Baidu to run an entity with the curious name of Y Combinator.<\/p>\n https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y_Combinator<\/a><\/p>\n So here is the gold at the end of the rainbow.<\/p>\n Y Combinator finds and funds software companies and cultivates them.\u00a0 \u00a0Some fail, but many are a success.\u00a0 \u00a0For the guidance, they get a minority ownership in those businesses.\u00a0 They have around 1,700 clients now.\u00a0 \u00a0Some of the ones I recognize include Doordash, AirBnB, Dropbox, Disqus, Justin.tv, Weebly, Scribd, and Reddit.<\/p>\n Funsoft sold its gaming business in 2014 to an entity called DianDian which was acquired by\u00a0Shanghai Zhongji Investment Holding, since renamed\u00a0Shanghai Fukong Interactive Entertainment<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.chinatechnews.com\/2014\/08\/26\/20843-diandian-interactive-sold-by-parent-for-usd960-million<\/a><\/p>\n countess and I have observed a few things on YouTube.\u00a0 Our buddy Indiana Jack made a delivery to a Costco warehouse and was shocked at the lack of activity.\u00a0 \u00a0Watching trains, the containers from Asia vanished.\u00a0 Countess has noticed strange dumping of out of season mechandise that seems illogical.<\/p>\n This is not the 1980s – we actively encourage the growth of China and much of our technology is dependent on Chinese entrepreneurs.\u00a0 \u00a0 You can’t just sever those ties.\u00a0 \u00a0 The coming empty store shelves may have nothing to do with hurricanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been spending time playing a game called Family Farm Seaside for a little over a year. They just released a major version that is buggy and not well thought out. Up until now, I was not curious about … Continue reading