Tiktok CEO
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Tiktok is one of the fastest growing platforms. I want to understand the thought process behind the product.
(The notes here were based from 1 interview only. This will be updated actively.)
Shou Chew
Interned at Facebook
Harvard Business School
Invested on Tiktok and become CEO when it needed to scale.
From Singapore
40 years old and a father of 2
Company's mission: "Inspire creativity and bring joy."
Technology
Tiktok is deployed on top of Oracle in Virginia and Singapore.
Governance
Half of the investors on the cap table are global such as Blackrock, Sequoia Capital, and many others.
Compliance
Tiktok has US, UK, and Chinese versions to follow strict media laws.
Prevent children from being addicted to scrolling on Tiktok but this law is not available in the US.
Tiktok provides quarterly transparency report of data requests made by government agencies around the world.
Tiktok doesn't accept political ads
If below 13 years old, the user has a restrictive version of Tiktok.
There's also a tool to manage your kid's account.
Tiktok has a messaging if you spend to much on the platform
For You page - a window to explore a whole new world
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