How Apple Became So Reliant on China & What it Means For Their Future
What if the rise of Apple also built modern China?
a16z’s Erik Torenberg is joined by board partner and former Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky to unpack how Apple’s pursuit of design excellence and supply chain scale catalyzed China’s manufacturing superpower status - and why that partnership is now under intense scrutiny.
Inspired by the book Apple in China (but not a book review), the episode dives deep into:
The early days of Apple’s shift to Chinese manufacturing
What experts got wrong in 1999 about trade, globalization, and China’s trajectory
How Tim Cook’s operational playbook…
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