Drew Kirchhoff's guest appearances

Drew Kirchhoff

Asia Startup Pulse

Archie Hamilton

Kevin Lee

Bobby Lee

Mike Burns

Yossi Vardi

Sean Pan

Hao Wu

Patrick Riley

Kevin Chen

Greg Nance

Patrick Lee

David Chen

Alan Clayton

Peter Davison

Rui Ma

OwlTail

Drew Kirchhoff is a product guy. After studying finance in the USA and working for a diamond investment firm in China, Drew became one of the most successful product managers to publish the game Crossy Road in the market achieving more than one hundred million downloads. “A great product manager makes a great CEO”. After being a product manager, he co-founded Yoli which allows users to learn English directly through WeChat. He shared how he and his co-founders found the market opportunities driven by the advent of WeChat, how they launched the company, developed Yoli WeChat mini-program and later, he explored deeper in the technical area to improve the product. Show Notes: 1:20  Drew’s background and his experience in China 5:50  Working in a mobile gaming company 7:50  Brought the game Crossy Road to the market 10:28 Performance of Crossy Road worldwide - 9/10 kids were playing the game 11:38 Product management to being a WeChat Mini-program entrepreneur 12:02 How WeChat changes Chinese business 14:00 Formation, MVP launch and goal of Yoli 21:40 Importance of Mini-programs for User Experience 24:00 Relationship with funding and development 26:30 Competing with huge competitors in the market 26:52 Exciting developments in Yoli’s language education service 30:50 Understanding Conversion Rates - from product to business 33:30 Drew Kirchhoff’s contact information Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we'll do our best to realize it! Many thanks to our host Oscar Ramos and guest Drew Kirchhoff, editor David and Geep, producer Eva Shi, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com

Drew Kirchhoff is a product guy. After studying finance in the USA and working for a diamond investment firm in China, Drew became one of the most successful product managers to publish the game Crossy Road in the market achieving more than one hundred million downloads. “A great product manager makes a great CEO”. After being a product manager, he co-founded Yoli which allows users to learn English directly through WeChat. He shared how he and his co-founders found the market opportunities driven by the advent of WeChat, how they launched the company, developed Yoli WeChat mini-program and later, he explored deeper in the technical area to improve the product. Show Notes: 1:20 Drew’s background and his experience in China 5:50 Working in a mobile gaming company 7:50 Brought the game Crossy Road to the market 10:28 Performance of Crossy Road worldwide - 9/10 kids were playing the game 11:38 Product management to being a WeChat Mini-program entrepreneur 12:02 How WeChat changes Chinese business 14:00 Formation, MVP launch and goal of Yoli 21:40 Importance of Mini-programs for User Experience 24:00 Relationship with funding and development 26:30 Competing with huge competitors in the market 26:52 Exciting developments in Yoli’s language education service 30:50 Understanding Conversion Rates - from product to business 33:30 Drew Kirchhoff’s contact information Feel free to leave a comment and start a conversation with us! If you have an ideal guest whom you would like to listen to, please let us know and we'll do our best to realize it! Many thanks to our host Oscar Ramos and guest Drew Kirchhoff, editor David and Geep, producer Eva Shi, organizer Chinaccelerator and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website <a href="http://www.chinaccelerator.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.chinaccelerator.com</a>

Leveraging WeChat ecosystem to build a profitable cross-border product with Drew Kirchhoff, Co-Founder and Head of Product of Yoli