Here in Guangzhou for a 10 day Canton Fair trip and had to make a trip out to see Slan. Slan is a friend I met at a Xiamen SEO conference in 2009!
We have various blogs with him over the years here
Visiting Slan’s office doing ecommerce export back in the day!
https://mikesblog.com/spending-time-inside-a-dongguan-china-web-company/
Meeting Slan and his wife on my Dongguan trip
https://mikesblog.com/perspective-of-inner-china-from-new-friends-in-dongguan/
Adapting to living in Dongguan, China
https://mikesblog.com/adapting-slowing-being-deeper-in-mainland-china/
And had to reconnect – talk business, talk Amazon, ecommerce – Temu, all of them. He had recently been to Los Angeles, USA and told me after 10pm he was afraid to go outside due to criminal activity.
How the world has changed, it was when I first met him that we would be afraid to go outside in Dongguan at 10pm!
Both now have children, and have been through so many endeavors, we enjoyed tea for multiple hours in his big office in Dongguan.
I wasn’t able to join for the large dinner and drinks – having a pile of work on my plate. He reminded me to slow down and enjoy life.
Thinking in 2025 may be able to do that.
Thanks Slan for being great friend.
Appreciate you, even coming to Cross Border Summit when your English isn’t so good. You’re a real one.