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Founder of Taobao Live
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In 2016, during a rain-soaked Hangzhou afternoon, John Chen stood backstage at Taobao’s first experimental live-streamed fashion show, no script, no teleprompter, just a handheld phone and a rack of unsold dresses. He didn’t pitch products; he told stories about the artisans behind each stitch, paused to answer real-time comments about fabric drape, and let viewers vote on which model walked next. That unscripted 93-minute broadcast sold out three collections and proved live commerce wasn’t just about urgency, it was about relational trust built in real time. Unlike Western platforms that bolted video onto existing e-commerce stacks, Chen designed Taobao Live from the ground up as a hybrid medium: algorithmically tuned for engagement but human-curated for cultural resonance, where KOLs weren’t influencers but trusted neighborhood shopkeepers with cameras. His insight wasn’t technological, it was anthropological: Chinese consumers didn’t want to watch shopping, they wanted to co-create it.
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