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acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories behind them. Today we'll tell the story of the most valuable text start up in the world, bite dance. You may not have heard of it, but you have almost certainly heard of their most popular product, doin er. Valued at close to eighty billion dollars, this privately held, venture backed chinese company has completely changed how a generation of teens and twenty semthings globally use their phones....
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 2017 merger 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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