How DeepSeek founder’s doubt led serial entrepreneur to embrace his gift of gab

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Meeting in a hotel lobby in Beijing in January, DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng posed a soul-searching question to Luo Yonghao, a former English teacher turned entrepreneur: why would someone whose best asset is his eloquence start a technology company?The exchange – recounted by Luo in Beijing on Saturday at an event hosted by Founder Park, a community for tech entrepreneurs – came just before DeepSeek’s large language models began attracting global attention for offering high performance at...