Xinhua Liu

Xinhua Liu is an investment partner at Gaorong Ventures, a Chinese venture capital firm, where he has been active since at least 2019 . He was previously Chief Growth Officer at Kuaishou, the short-video platform, and has over 22 years of experience across product, strategy, growth, and operations at tech companies . At Gaorong, he has focused on growth strategy for portfolio companies, drawing on his track record of working on products that reached tens of millions to hundreds of millions of daily active users . More recently, he has turned his attention to AI product growth, arguing that AI Market Fit — not just Product-Market Fit — is the governing rule for AI applications in the near term, and that cost barriers for AI apps are likely to fall over the 18 months following mid-2024 . He has also written and spoken about global expansion trends for Chinese startups and the shift from "discriminative AI" to generative AI .