🧠Tiktok CEO

Tiktok is one of the fastest growing platforms. I want to understand the thought process behind the product.

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  • 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

  • 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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