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 an old building with high ceilings and a roof garden, but inside it feels more like Palo Alto than China.

We work mostly on EST, though that depends heavily on workload and jet lag situations.

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.