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SCALE UP - Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive

From Jerry Hu’s SCALE UP comes a new series: Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive. Hosts Colin and Nicole dissect Jerry’s newsletter to uncover how entire markets—not just companies—shape the future of work. From India’s 4M STEM grads to China’s volatile job market and Southeast Asia’s $1T digital economy, each episode blends culture, politics, and business with data and stories. Full essays are also on Substack and WeChat in English and Chinese. jerryhualibaba.substack.com

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13:12

Deep Dive into When Nothing Works, Innovation Does:...

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2025/12/24

What if the strongest innovation engine isn’t capital, talent, or infrastructure — but constraint?In Nairobi, Lagos, and Cape Town, some of the most globally relevant tech isn’t being built despite broken systems —it’s being built because of them.No banks? Africa built mobile money that now outperforms traditional banking.No landlines? It skipped straight to mobile internet.No credit bureaus? It created alternative credit models others now copy.Unreliable electricity? Products are designed

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14:45

The $300B Question: How Freedom to Question Shapes...

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2025/12/16

Over $300B has been committed to building the future of tech across the Middle East — from Saudi Arabia and the UAE to Qatar.Infrastructure is world-class. Campuses are impressive. Talent is global.And yet, innovation outcomes remain uneven.👉 What if the real constraint isn’t capital — but the conditions under which people are allowed to question, collaborate, and take risks?👉 What if innovation doesn’t stall because of a lack of talent — but because only part of that talent can fully

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14:29

Deep Dive into Less Is Leverage — How Nordic Small...

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2025/12/09

A 6-person Nordic team just beat a 45-person Silicon Valley team to the same AI problem — same scope, same brief, completely different drag on coordination, energy, and talent.👉 What if the real advantage in modern tech isn’t hiring more people, but removing the layers that slow small teams from moving at full speed?👉 What if AI becomes the multiplier that lets a six-person squad deliver what used to take twenty — without the meetings, hand-offs, or hierarchy?👉 What if Gen Z is accelerating the

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13:10

Deep Dive into Depth Beats Speed: Why 5.3-Year Tenure...

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2025/12/02

A Western European fintech went through three external CTO hires in six years — all with impressive Silicon Valley or Western scale-up pedigrees — and none of them worked out.Then they picked Kasia, a Romanian infrastructure engineer who had spent seven quiet years inside Eastern European platforms. No hype, no big-name brand. Just depth.Here’s the thing we don’t talk about enough:For a decade, Eastern Europe was framed as a cheap talent play — a way to cut engineering costs, outsource backlog, and

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12:57

Deep Dive into When Borders Become Features: How...

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2025/11/25

🎧 Season 3 Premiere - Episode 1 is LiveWe’re opening our EMEA season with a new storytelling format.For the first time, instead of exploring one city at a time, we follow a single character, Lucía, as she moves across multiple regions — letting us see European tech, policy, and culture through the lived lens of a 24-year-old AI engineer navigating London → Dublin → Amsterdam → (almost) Paris.👉 What if Europe’s edge isn’t speed, but architecture — with hubs like Amsterdam & Berlin showing 3–4×

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7:15

Inside the Episode – Season Finale: Timezone Is...

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2025/11/18

Hi everyone, and welcome back to SCALE UP: Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive.This week’s episode — Timezone Is Geography — marks the finale of Season 2.This season wasn’t just research.It was storytelling — following real people navigating AI disruption, Gen Z mobility, immigration pressure, and the new physics of work across North America.Today, we’re pulling everything together —Seven episodes. Seven cities. Seven characters. One continental system.Let’s revisit what we learned.What We Learned

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15:17

Deep Dive into Timezone Is Geography - 310K Engineers...

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2025/11/12

👉 What if the Caribbean’s rise isn’t about cheaper labor or beaches — but about presence across time, where one workday covers New York’s morning, São Paulo’s afternoon, and San Francisco’s night?👉 What if the real edge isn’t AI or capital — but engineers positioned in the timezone gap where decisions happen in real time?👉 And what happens when distributed-first companies design around coverage, language, and culture instead of office addresses?In 2025, the Caribbean became the Western

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4:09

Inside the Episode – Embedded Teams Win

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2025/11/09

Hi everyone, and welcome back to SCALE UP: Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive.In Episode 5 – The $100K Pivot, we examined how mobility is reshaping the future of tech careers — and how talent is rewriting the map of North America.We followed Arjun Kapoor, a former Stripe engineer whose H-1B renewal fell through, forcing him to leave California for Toronto.“When I got my PR card,” he told us, “it was the first time I stopped holding my breath.”That quiet exhale captured something bigger: a

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16:22

Deep Dive into Embedded Teams Win - How Mexico...

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2025/11/06

👉 What if Mexico’s rise isn’t just about nearshoring supply chains — but about reshoring innovation itself, as Shein, BYD, Huawei, Tesla, and AWS plant their flags there?👉 What if the true competitive edge isn’t AI, capital, or code — but engineers who live the constraints they’re solving?👉 And what happens when a generation that values experience and autonomy builds systems from the ground up?In 2024, Mexico became the world’s most unexpected tech hub — not by chasing the cheapest labor, but by

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5:25

Inside the Episode – The $100K Pivot

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2025/11/02

Hi everyone, and welcome back to SCALE UP: Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive.Last week in Episode 4 – The Optionality Generation, we explored how the South reshaped what ambition looks like.From Atlanta’s financial foundation, to Texas’s scale mindset, to Philadelphia’s sense of purpose, we met a generation that’s no longer chasing the perfect job — they’re engineering freedom.We followed Tasha Williams, a Georgia Tech grad who turned down multiple $200 K+ offers in San Francisco for a $140 K role

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15:10

Deep Dive into The $100K Pivot: Why Montreal,...

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2025/10/30

👉 What if the next Silicon Valley isn’t built on venture capital — but visa math?👉 What if “citizenship certainty” becomes the new equity for global talent?👉 And what happens when the most mobile generation in history decides that freedom to stay is worth more than stock to vest?In 2024 alone, over 150,000 engineers were priced out of the U.S. talent system after the new $100,000 H-1B fee.Where did they go? North.🇨🇦 Canada fast-tracked over 600,000 new permanent residents — the largest intake

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4:08

Inside the Episode – The Optionality Generation

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2025/10/22

Hi everyone, and welcome back to SCALE UP: Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive.Last week in Episode 3, we explored America’s East Coast — the place where innovation meets accountability. From New York’s institutional fintech networks to Boston’s biotech corridors and D.C.’s cyber-defense rooms, we saw how the next wave of builders are trading velocity for stability, and disruption for trust.We followed Jake Morrison, a Wall Street technologist who left a $500K role at Goldman Sachs to rebuild the

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16:41

Deep Dive into The Optionality Generation: How Gen Z...

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2025/10/19

👉 Why is “optionality” replacing “making it” as Gen Z’s ultimate career currency — where a $140K job in Atlanta can compound faster than a $250K one in San Francisco?👉 How are companies like Mailchimp, JPMorgan, and Relay Therapeutics quietly winning the Gen Z talent war — not through prestige or perks, but by offering pathways to pivot?👉 And what happens when international engineers, priced out of the coasts and locked out by visa fees, start optimizing for mobility — choosing cities like

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4:42

Inside the Episode - East Coast Gravity

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2025/10/10

Hi everyone, and welcome back to Season 2 of SCALE UP: Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive.Last week in Episode 2, we followed the talent migration up and down America’s West Coast — from Seattle’s cloud wars to San Diego’s biotech boom. We saw how a new generation of technologists is redefining success: trading prestige for purpose, and burnout for balance. Jennifer Park’s story captured it perfectly — choosing Seattle over Silicon Valley, and discovering that real success isn’t about hustle, but

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17:56

Deep Dive into East Coast Gravity: How NYC & Boston...

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2025/10/07

👉 Why are high-performing engineers walking away from $500K Wall Street careers for riskier $180K startup roles?👉 How did the East Coast quietly become home to the world’s highest-stakes tech — where a system crash can ripple across nations?👉 And what does it reveal about the future of work when Gen Z increasingly prioritizes autonomy, purpose, and mental reset — viewing sabbaticals not as breaks, but as part of a sustainable career design?Here’s the paradox:⚡ Silicon Valley builds for speed —

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5:52

Inside the Episode - The $17B West Coast Renaissance

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2025/10/04

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Season 2 of SCALE UP – Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive.Last week we pulled back the curtain on the pilot episode, which tackled Silicon Valley’s paradox. On one hand, it’s still the world’s richest talent hub — on the other, it’s become so unlivable that more than 230,000 tech workers have packed up and left. We told Sarah Chen’s story: a Stanford grad earning $180,000 at Open AI, decoding world-class AI models by day, yet sleeping in her car by night, because

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15:08

Deep Dive into The $17B West Coast Renaissance: From...

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2025/09/30

Thank you all for the overwhelming support for the pilot episode of Season 2 🙏. So many of you reached out to say the story deeply resonated—that our take captured the real picture of Silicon Valley today, including the non-glossy side that mass media often misses.This week, we continue with the West Coast Renaissance—the story of how innovation is no longer confined to one zip code.👉 Why are some engineers leaving $200K jobs in the Valley for smaller but more meaningful roles in Portland and San

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4:26

The Making of Season 2 - Pilot episode

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2025/09/28

Hi everyone, and welcome back to SCALE UP – Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive. This is Season 2!If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that the pilot episode went live last week across all platforms. Its title says it all:“Silicon Valley’s Broken Dreams – How the World’s Richest Talent Hub Became So Unlivable That 230K Tech Workers Fled $300K Salaries and $3.2M Homes.”Before we move into the upcoming releases, I wanted to take today to share the making of this pilot episode — why we chose to

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21:18

Deep Dive into Silicon Valley’s Broken Dreams - How...

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2025/09/25

Hi fellow listeners, thank you so much for the support and love for Season 1. The pilot episode of Season 2 is now live 👏—this time, we’re shifting the lens from Asia Pacific back to North America. And you guessed it: our first stop is the most debated place right now—Silicon Valley.👉 How did the birthplace of the microchip and the iPhone become a place where $300K salaries can’t buy stability?👉 Why are Stanford grads coding breakthrough AI by day—and sleeping in cars by night?👉 What happens

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6:08

Behind-the-scenes of SCALE UP Global Talent...

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2025/09/20

Hi everyone, and welcome back. As of last week, we have officially wrapped up the first season of this new podcast launched about 2 months ago. SCALE UP - Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive. I wanted to take a moment today to share the story, inspirations and anecdotes behind making this seasonAs many of you know, I’ve spent years covering talent markets across multiple geographic regions. One challenge I often run into is this assumption that people use a one size fits all approach to entire

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