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It’s hard to overstate the ecommerce opportunity in India. The country’s population is now the world’s largest at 1.46 billion in 2025, per the United Nations, compared to 1.4 billion in China and 347 million in the U.S.

Andreessen Horowitz has made headlines for its American dynamism thesis, but a U.S. passport is no requirement. According to Gabriel Vasquez, a partner focusing on AI apps and the firm’s global investment strategy, “44% of our investments in the Apps Fund One and Two have an international founder.” 

Yiwu, a city in east China’s Zhejiang province, is neither a coastal hub nor a border town, yet it has built a trade network that spans the globe. Today, the city hosts more than 10,000 foreign-invested businesses and approximately 38,000 foreign merchants who live and work there.