From reading the wikipedia for his company [0] and "Chinese Mobile App UI Trends" [1] a while back, after getting to the part that their app has a web browser,

From reading the wikipedia for his company [0] and "Chinese Mobile App UI Trends" [1] a while back, after getting to the part that their app has a web browser, I got the impression that they are replicating chinese apps for a western audience, where every thing you do (chat, browse, buy) happens through one app. I was not surprised to learn that they got 50M from Tencent. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_Messenger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_Messenger [1] http://dangrover.com/blog/2014/12/01/chinese-mobile-app-ui-trends.html http://dangrover.com/blog/2014/12/01/chinese-mobile-app-ui-t...