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Social Media Platforms - Is It a Social Network?
Tik tok is a Chinese social media platform. Creators are paid for their work, but don't have the same direct relationship with an audience as face book and instigram do. Founder Alex Rolast says it's like building a country or nation from ground up. He likens tik tok to musically where you centralize your economy before decentralizing....
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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