On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before a House panel to argue against a ban on his app, after Congress sais its Chinese ownership poses a national security threat. He reassured Americans their data is safe and there was no way that Beijing will be able to influence what viewers see on TikTok.
“Let me start by addressing some misconceptions about ByteDance, of which [TikTok] are a subsidiary. ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese,” he said. He added: “We expect that to be complete this year. When that is done, all protected U.S. data will be under the protection of U.S. law.”
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Who is Shou Zi Chew?
Shou Zi Chew was born and raised in Singapore. He studied at Harvard Business School. After that, he spent some of his early career cutting deals for a venture-capital firm in Asia. At the age of 32, he was appointed the chief financial officer of a Chinese smartphone giant. Although he mostly runs TikTok from offices in Singapore, he travels often, including the U.S.
He met his wife, a Taiwanese-American who grew up in Bethesda, Md., at Harvard.
Shou Zi Chew net worth
Shou Zi Chew’s net worth has never been officially announced and is unknown in 2023, but it is reportedly in the multi-millions.
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Shou Zi Chew age
Shou was born on January 1, 1983,
Shou Zi Chew relationship
Chew met Taiwanese-American Vivian Kao while studying at HBS in 2008. They would later get married and have two children.
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Shou Zi Chew career
After finishing his studies, he worked at an investment firm called DST. He led a team that invested in ByteDance, which acquired the app Musical.ly in November 2017. It eventually merged it with TikTok to boost the app’s popularity to the platform it is today.
For two years, the CEO worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. He had a high role in the Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi. After that, he became the chief financial officer of ByteDance in March 2021 and was promoted to TikTok CEO two months later.
