Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

Word slinger, bug fixer, and operator.

How Reliance Won

How the Ambanis became the richest family in Asia. This is the third case on the rise of a tycoon, and the last one before we start talking about the core pattern in all of these Asian Tycoon’s lives. Part 6 in the Asian Conglomerate Series.

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Speedrunning the Skill of Demand

How to get better, faster at the skill of uncovering demand, which underpins the skill domains of sales, marketing, and product.

Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates

How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.

Let’s Talk Corruption

How to think about corruption when talking about Asian businesses. Part 4 of the Asian Conglomerate series.

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Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload

A simple, effective — though not easy! — technique for solving information overload. Written from practice.

The Story of Samsung

How Samsung became the largest chaebol in South Korea, and gained so much power over the country’s economy.

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The Study of Asian Tycoons

What can we learn from the study of Asian conglomerates, and the small group of tycoons that control them?

The Gambling King

The start of the Asian Conglomerates Series: we open with a look at the life of Stanley Ho, gambling king of Macau.

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Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis

Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented approach to AI in real world domains.

The 2024 Commoncog Recap

Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.