TikTok

from Acquired

by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Published: Mon Dec 09 2019

Show Notes

We take Acquired to the Old Town Road to cover the amazing story behind the biggest global sensation of 2019— and the highest valued private startup in the world — TikTok. How did a mid-30 year old UX architect at enterprise software giant SAP wind up creating Gen Z’s favorite social app that’s now rivaling Instagram in global MAU? Why is a 2017merger of two Chinese companies being branded a US national security threat and retroactively placed under review by CFIUS? And perhaps most importantly, why is TikTok such an important product & technology innovation that all of us should be learning from? Tune in for all the answers!

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