#ByteDance

Are you curious about how TikTok might monetize in the future?A good example to look at what is possible might be how ByteDance currently does things at Douyin. Here's a
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GiVinG mY DaTa tO ChiNa Is JusT LiKe gIviNg iT To gOOglE oR FaCeBoOk Making a thread because it’s actually really important. Facebook and Google are corporations that without a
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With $TTD earnings coming up next week, a reminder of why it's my pick for the next decade.1. TAM is huge and growing. $TTD estimates $1 trillion in Ad Spend
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Recently I picked $SQ as the company that excites me the most. My one pick for the next 10 years would be a different company, $TTD.In 10 years, looking back,
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My high-level investment thesis on The Trade Desk $TTDStill applies now as it did back then.1. TAM is huge and growing. $TTD estimates $1 trillion in Ad Spend by 2027,
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Happy to help bring to light the national security threat posed by platforms beholden to the CCP (or any authoritarian govt). Thank you, #60Minutes. For a deeper dive on the
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Lot of people are talking about why the Indian apps did not win this market when TikTok and other Chinese apps were there. A short thread on that 1.
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Allen Zhang the creator of WeChat (I am a fangirl) gave a 2 hr long speech yesterday abt his thoughts on the product on the eve of its 10th anniversary.
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As a tech journalist in Beijing, I'm glad we're talking about China & cybersecurity. But I worry we're too focussed on bans & not enough on finding practical solutions for
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1) Let's talk about my reaction to @packyM's Alibaba longform. (Oh yeah, Substack deserves its own reaction genre). While I enjoy Packy work, I think this piece missed local context
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The most fucking tone deaf article ever. The author starts out by praising the CEO of TikTok/Bytedance. Someone should have told the author TikTok is/was built completely on unlicensed music.
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While there are many calls to boycott everything Chinese, the sad truth is that it’s next to impossible to totally remove Chinese owned products from our everyday lives. In this
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"Cohen-Watnick now works for the software company Oracle."http://politi.co/2yNLH7s  http://thehill.com/policy/technology/354783-report-oracle-hires-former-pence-chief-of-staff Oracle has been named in a lawsuit alleging the c
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1) Let's talk about the product philosophy of the pioneer in short video app. Founded in 2011, they currently have 776m MAUs as of June 2020. On average, users would
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Limiting WeChat will have major effects on the Chinese diaspora in the US, but Tencent has long been accused of censoring and surveilling overseas users, essentially extending the Great Firewall
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Leaving Musk aside, seems more like how the venture capitalists who fund Clubhouse—who are not coincidentally on the app’s Suggested User List—are guaranteed an audience by the app & thus
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