2026-06-13
Wuzhao's Operating System Was Installed in Japan
He joined Alibaba as an intern in 1999, left for Japan two years later, and stayed eleven years. Back home he built DingTalk, built hardware, and even pointed his own startup at the Japanese market. The precise, disciplined, obsessively polished operating system Wuzhao runs on was forged in Japan. It's a top-tier rig for building hardware and a fundamental mismatch for exploring AI. The real reason DingTalk stalled was written in his résumé all along.