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🤯 Why China South City Collapsed Despite Government  Backing
Aug 17, 2025

🤯 Why China South City Collapsed Despite Government Backing

How China’s biggest trade city became ghost town #1

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
PhilippinesPhilippines
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🤯 How Oriente Burned $160M Trying to Bank the Unbanked
Aug 03, 2025

🤯 How Oriente Burned $160M Trying to Bank the Unbanked

Offline growth. Flashy GTM. Then COVID hit. Data breaches followed. Here’s how to not die the same way.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
Hong KongHong Kong
🤯 $70M Burned. No Profits. HSBC Gave Up.
Jul 27, 2025

🤯 $70M Burned. No Profits. HSBC Gave Up.

Serai had everything — capital, connections, and 16k users... but still died broke. Here’s why Serai failed — and what every founder should learn.

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
Hong KongHong Kong
🤙🏻 How this $1.5B hotel phone empire burned $170M in 7 years
Feb 09, 2025

🤙🏻 How this $1.5B hotel phone empire burned $170M in 7 years

Never bet against technological progress

Admond Lee
Admond Lee
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