Andy Walsh2x Exited Founder, Startup Strategist & Podcast Host

Why Copying China's Production Model Is the Wrong Move

14 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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Andy Walsh argues that copying China's mass production model misses the real engine of growth: small, innovative companies that think differently. When they pursue novel approaches, they achieve lower costs and trigger industry-wide transformations that reshape entire economies.

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Jumping back to the start, the part that I'm also fascinated and excited by in that is that when you have young, fresh, small, innovative companies who are thinking completely different than the incumbents, all of a sudden we've got people who are going, well, we don't need to recreate what happened in China. We're actually going to do it a way that's more effective. And that innovation doesn't just create a business, it changes industry at large, right? And it makes things more cost effective and changes economies. So there's such a compounding effect across the board of that shift. Yeah.