Tiktok is one of the fastest growing platforms. I want to understand the thought process behind the product.
## Notes
(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
* A subsidiary of ByteDance ()
* 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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## Sources
* TikTok C.E.O. Shou Chew on China, the Algorithm and More\
