It was that I was expecting them to have different motivations or styles of working. The "conventional" wisdom in the US is that Chinese companies don't innova

It was that I was expecting them to have different motivations or styles of working. The "conventional" wisdom in the US is that Chinese companies don't innovate, and just do great work copying. The reality is they're just as innovative as anyone in SV. Companies like FB end up building new amazing technology because of challenges at scale, not because it's necessarily core to the user experience for a single user, and the same thing happened in China.