I'm an American who moved to China. After 7 years, I run a profitable startup and make friends through badminton.

Jul 9 2025 by Business Insider

 
Joshua Charles Woodard worked at Apple in China before founding a Shenzhen-based manufacturing consultancy.

Joshua Charles Woodard

Joshua Charles Woodard, now 29, graduated from MIT and moved to China to learn how products get made.He worked at Apple in China before founding a Shenzhen-based manufacturing consultancy.Woodard said despite the US trade war, Shenzen's deeply-rooted supply chain would be hard to move.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Joshua Charles Woodard,...

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