In 2014, as their video app Kuaishou began to take off, Mr Su Hua and his co-founders started looking for money to expand.
They quickly got a proposal from Ms Ruby Lu, a venture investor who had spotted them earlier as promising engineers and given them feedback on previous businesses.
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