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Former TikTok and ByteDance staff say TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's power is limited, with ByteDance's founder and other executives making most decisions

Shou Zi Chew, TikTok's chief executive, is balancing how to be an autonomous leader while juggling the demands of the app's Chinese parent company. Tweets: @rmac18 , @niubi , @rmac18 , and @rmac18 Tweets: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : We spoke to 12 former TikTok and ByteDance employees and execs. The biggest takeway: big TikTok growth, product and strategy decisions ultimately are made by ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and executives in Beijing, not TikTok's CEO. https://www.nytimes.com/... Bill Bishop / @niubi : this is a fairly devastating article about tiktok and its implausible claims that it is somehow independent from its prc parent https://twitter.com/... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has been in the job for more than a year, but has done little press. We took a look at how he's been running the world's most popular app, and how he's navigating pressure from the US and his Chinese parent company, ByteDance: https://www.nytimes.com/... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Some of those folks said Chew's hiring was strategic: He's Singaporean and based in Singapore, a hedge against any potential crackdowns from the Chinese government or US lawmakers. As such, TikTok continues to move more operations to Singapore. https://www.nytimes.com/...

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  • @niubi Bill Bishop on x
    this is a fairly devastating article about tiktok and its implausible claims that it is somehow independent from its prc parent https://twitter.com/...
  • @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
    We spoke to 12 former TikTok and ByteDance employees and execs. The biggest takeway: big TikTok growth, product and strategy decisions ultimately are made by ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and executives in Beijing, not TikTok's CEO. https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
    TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has been in the job for more than a year, but has done little press. We took a look at how he's been running the world's most popular app, and how he's navigating pressure from the US and his Chinese parent company, ByteDance: https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
    Some of those folks said Chew's hiring was strategic: He's Singaporean and based in Singapore, a hedge against any potential crackdowns from the Chinese government or US lawmakers. As such, TikTok continues to move more operations to Singapore. https://www.nytimes.com/...