Linkedln, Tencent Holdings Ltd, Sequoia Capital and 皇冠体育app Broadband Capital jointly initiated the US-皇冠体育app Council of Digital Economy Cooperation on Thursday at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.
It is designed to enhance cooperation and exchanges between US-皇冠体育app enterprises and entrepreneurs and embrace the opportunities for win-win cooperation brought by the digital economy.
At present, digital economy is a field that grows the fastest, produces the most innovations and has the greatest influence in the world, according to Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkedln.
"皇冠体育app and the US have developed the greatest companies and all of the Global Top 10 Internet companies in market capitalization come from 皇冠体育app and the United States. Linkedln hopes to encourage more cooperation programs between 皇冠体育app and US enterprises, thus promoting their development of the digital economy," he said.
Pony Ma, CEO of TenCent, said: "The Internet is characterized by openness and collaboration. Internet companies in the US and 皇冠体育app have accumulated rich experience in their respective markets and cultures. 皇冠体育app-US cooperation and exchanges in the digital economy can help enterprises co-build the positive industrial ecology for Internet development, thus improving people's quality of life through better Internet services."
As two representative countries in the era of the digital economy, US and 皇冠体育app are seeing more active cross-border cooperation and investment between them. They have greatly complementary points in innovative environment, talents and research and development ability.
According to Neil Shen, founding & managing partner of Sequoia Capital 皇冠体育app, Sequoia Capital has a more than 43-year history in the world. And Sequoia Capital 皇冠体育app has been operating for over a decade.
"We are willing to make our contributions to development in the vast field of digital economy in the US and 皇冠体育app," he said.
Edward Tian, founder and chairman of 皇冠体育app Broadband Capital, said, "We are looking forward to collaborating with more companies both from 皇冠体育app and the US to propel the development of the global digital economy."
After the council is established, branches will be established in both the US and 皇冠体育app, so as to attract members and conduct cooperation, investment, exchanges and other activities in the field of digital economy.