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ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

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Re: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

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$50B for TikTok sounds a lot. I am wondering how they want to keep TikTok attractive for the audience. Would it hit a similar fate as Snap?

What fate are you referring to with Snapchat? I’m pretty close to the target audience for both Snapchat and TikTok and nearly everyone I know (edit: close to my age) uses both.

Re: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

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$50B for TikTok sounds a lot. I am wondering how they want to keep TikTok attractive for the audience. Would it hit a similar fate as Snap?

What fate are you referring to with Snapchat? I’m pretty close to the target audience for both Snapchat and TikTok and nearly everyone I know (edit: close to my age) uses both.

Snapchat monetization strategies? It's easier to be fresh if you don't need to make a buck from ad sales

Re: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

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$50B for TikTok sounds a lot. I am wondering how they want to keep TikTok attractive for the audience. Would it hit a similar fate as Snap?

Fate similar to Snap? $SNAP is doing just fine and is up 38% this year. 17% DAU growth in the past year. I'm sure TikTok would be thrilled to have 17% user growth and increasing revenues 9 years down the line.

Re: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid

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$50B for TikTok sounds a lot. I am wondering how they want to keep TikTok attractive for the audience. Would it hit a similar fate as Snap?

$50B sounds like a lot, especially in the face of pressure from the US and a lot of people leaving the platform due to privacy reasons.

We've also learned from Snap at this point not to overvalue social media. I think they really should take the $1B offer and go.

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$50B seems too low for TikTok. It could be atleast as big as Facebook in the next five years. $200B min if investors are serious.

OR could follow Snap fate?

No, it's going to be bigger. I know most people dont use snap but they use tiktok.

Everyone young uses tiktok. It's much bigger than snap could have ever hoped. TikTok is FAANG tier company.

If I were the founder, I'd go the Chinese government and ask them to ban Tesla and put tariff on Apple in retaliation. Tell the U.S. to play free market like they claim. Or lost access for it's companies.

TikTok deserves it's success fully. It's very unfair that the U.S. government is insistent on blocking it. It's not a monopoly. It's not a dirty company. Virtually all of its "privacy violations" are the same violations done by Google, Facebook. Break up BigTech instead of hitting a creative startup.

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