{"id":75046,"date":"2018-01-09T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/how-chinas-steve-jobs-bit-off-more-than-he-could-chew-and-saw-his-tech-empire-collapse"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:03:00","slug":"how-chinas-steve-jobs-bit-off-more-than-he-could-chew-and-saw-his-tech-empire-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/how-chinas-steve-jobs-bit-off-more-than-he-could-chew-and-saw-his-tech-empire-collapse","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018China\u2019s Steve Jobs\u2019 bit off more than he could chew and saw his tech empire collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-chinas-steve-jobs-bit-off-more-than-he-could-chew-and-saw-his-tech-empire-collapse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His ultimate quest, though, was the automobile. The integration of the internet and self-driving, emission-free vehicles, he once said, would not only clean up the country\u2019s polluted cities, it would free up millions of people to consume more of LeEco\u2019s services on their commutes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Visionary or reckless risk-taker? Self-made internet entrepreneur Jia Yueting once ranked among China\u2019s richest men, but overexpansion and a funding crunch have him scrambling to save his sprawling tech empire.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/leaders-founders\/article\/2126997\/how-chinas-steve-jobs-bit-more-he-could-chew-and-saw-his-tech\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/leaders-founders\/article\/2126997\/ho...w-his-tech<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His ultimate quest, though, was the automobile. The integration of the internet and self-driving, emission-free vehicles, he once said, would not only clean up the country\u2019s polluted cities, it would free up millions of people to consume more of LeEco\u2019s services on their commutes. Visionary or reckless risk-taker? Self-made internet entrepreneur Jia Yueting once ranked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75077,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75046\/revisions\/75077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}