What Has Kai-fu Lee Done Since October?

I visited Kai-fu Lee’s Innovation Works while I was in Beijing last week to see how things are going. When I last visited the ex-Google China CEO's incubator, it was little more than empty, expensive office space. (Next to Google…prime poaching?) Now, the offices are teeming with more than 100 people, most of whom are clustered in a nine very early-stage startups. Most of them are targeting mobile, but everything else Lee told me was off the record. (Sorry.) Suffice to say, the incubator is bursting at the seams and Lee doesn’t seem content. Expect more news soon. Lee is well known in China—see if you can spot his book on sale above. I shot it in a train station of a second tier city. But there’s some healthy skepticism about how Innovation Works will do.