AOE began our Startup in Guangzhou China May of 2015 full time. Immediately several poor Chinese people rallied around us due to our social enterprise Impact mission to help clean China's environment with our world changing technology. They dragged us to over 40 Startup venues, trade fairs, so called "investment associations" so called "VC groups" & government offices & pitch contests and more. This continued across 12 cities as we toured non-stop for 15 months pitching endlessly in what can only be described as something like a game show TV endless race of pitching & preparing non stop morning until midnight 7 days a week without a single day free including on many Sundays. When the founder was hospitalized for 2 months with a serious physical injury, we made videos in the makeshift hospital room, continued working from the hospital bed non stop & were determined to win.
However, after pitching in every major Startup center in the nation, we learned that not only has there never been a single deal to a foreign in China Startup in all of history, there was no one interested to do one regardless of how valuable & needed for the environment or people & the business & startup investor & government business communities were so racist & exclusionary, that many of the bosses were not only angry that we wanted them to invest to "foreigner" not a Chinese controlling interest, but they were angry also when we wouldn't let them steal our technology after over 60,000 hack attempts & bosses filming us through the windows & glass doors of our office until the police took them away.
Eventually after endlessly more corrupt evil actions by the Chinese uber-rich with more money than God while we were building there & investing our time lives & money & wanted to help the nation, we decided if they wont invest to us, then we will relocate to Cambodia to the fledgling stock market & the 3200 NGOs & environment of contribution to society & if the Chinese ever smarten up then they can invest to foreigner, helping foreigner. We remain "sickened" to this day. Over 70 MIllion people have been murdered via toxic air pollution, air pollution related illnesses & energy poverty, including over 7.3 MILLION Chinese people they decided to kill rather than give even one single dollar of contribution, to "Foreigner".
The pollution in China is not just environmental pollution but overriding the dead rivers of dead fish, dead pigs, dead chickens, Sars, Coronavirus, Diseases, Near total Prostitution, Fraud, Financial fraud, Toxic industrial pollution, But the real pollution, is in the completely blackened hearts & minds of the Chinese bosses, government officials, & rich, who clearly care absolutely nothing for their own people, the environment, nor the rest of humanity.