FT traces how a financier couple in a 1920s Shanghai villa built an AI cloud empire on Nvidia ties
zijing_wu · x · 2026-11-11
The FT went on the ground to unpack how financier couple Alice Huang and Kang Wei pitched an Nvidia-chips AI cloud project to investors from a 1920s Shanghai private members club, growing into AI cloud players. The poster notes the story gets stranger the deeper you look, linking a breakdown of Huang's tangled web of connections; former colleagues describe her formidable networking skills and record of converting relationships into business deals.
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