Guangzhou (Canton City), China

Our office is in an old, dense neigbborhood in Guangzhou, China, a city of between 8 and 20 million people depending on how you count. Guangzhou is China's underrated hotbed of commerce and entrepreneurship, with a GDP per capita that is 50% higher than that of Beijing .

You can feel this buzz of activity as soon as you step out the door - it feels like a Jackie Chan movie. We work in a building with great views and a large garden, inside it feels more like Palo Alto than China.

We are trying to be distinctly non-corporate, ignoring all the infrastructure (mostly in Shanghai) for setting up satellite offices of western corporations that don't want their employees to notice that they're in China.