TikTok Ceo: From Facebook Intern To Meta Rival

by John Austine | Jan 18, 2025 | tech |

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew worked as an intern for Facebook before leading Tik Tok, Facebook’s closest rival.

Chew at 40, has managed TikTok since 2021, guiding the app to become the world’s most downloaded app last year, with 672 million downloads, according to a Statista analysis of iOS and Google Play data.

The app’s success has raised concerns among U.S. officials, who feel it could constitute a security violation.

Tik Tok is owned by Beijing-based internet giant ByteDance.

Chew stated before the US House Energy and Commerce Committee. “I don’t believe what we collect is more than most players in the industry.”

TikTok gathers user-provided account information, such as user-generated content, messages, purchase information, and communication preferences, beginning in March 2023, according to the company’s privacy policy.

The platform also automatically gathers location data, metadata, and cookies for advertising purposes, in accordance with the privacy rules of companies like Meta and Snapchat.

History At Facebook

Shou Chew was born in Singapore and earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from University College London in 2006.

He went on to earn an MBA from Harvard University, where he interned at Facebook, according to the Harvard Business School alumni page.

In 2010, Facebook surpassed Google as the most popular website in the United States, accounting for 8.9% of all visits between January and November 2010, according to Reuters.

Facebook currently has 3.07 billion monthly active users which reflects a 3% increase from the 2.9 billion reported in 2022.

Is TikTok the Next Social Media Giant?

TikTok may not be far behind. It boasts about 1.6 billion monthly users and is the fifth most popular social media platform.

The video platform’s spectacular development appears to have thrown a kink into Facebook’s plans.

Zuckerberg revealed to Stratechery last year that he “sort of missed” the new way consumers “interacted with discovered content.”

According to a leaked internal memo, Facebook altered its algorithms last year to compete more directly with TikTok, favoring more short-form video content and changing how it promotes new postings to users.

On Thursday, Chew appeared to mention Facebook and other social media competitors while telling Congress that TikTok had “tried to learn the lessons of companies that have come before us” and that lawmakers’ security worries should apply to the entire sector.

“The possible security, privacy, and content manipulation issues raised by TikTok are not unique to us”.

“The same issues affect other companies,” he said.

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