TikTok CEO Zhou was funded.

(Bloomberg)

[Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report] TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew (Shou Zi Chew) attended the U.S. Congressional hearing this Thursday (23rd), facing the U.S. banning order and 5 hours of torture by members of Congress from the two parties. Fear, who is the 40-year-old Zhou Shouzi, the outside world is curious.

The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Zhou Shouzi was born in Singapore. When he was studying at Harvard, he had an internship at Facebook and met his wife Vivian Kao, a Taiwanese-American who grew up in Maryland.

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In 2012, Zhou Shouzi visited a company located in a residential building in the University District of Beijing. At that time, 30 people including a chef crowded together to develop an APP. This company was Bytedance, and later created TikTok.

Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, was supported by Zhou Shouzi, who invested in ByteDance with Zhou Shouzi and his partners.

Zhou also has another investment in Xiaomi Group. After that, Xiaomi first hired Zhou Shouzi as CFO (Chief Financial Officer), and then took charge of business outside China. Zhou's understanding of Chinese and Western business culture made him stand out, and he led Xiaomi in 2018. IPO.

In 2021, Zhang Yiming, who has always been in touch with Zhou Shouzi, invited Zhou to be the CFO of ByteDance. Two months later, Zhou Shouzi took over the position of CEO of Shou Zi Chew.

Because Zhou has cross-cultural ability, which helps him communicate with the United States, he was ordered to go to the US Congress this week to explain data security and privacy protection issues.

At congressional hearings, both Democrats and Republicans in the United States launched sharp criticisms of TikTok, and successively raised questions about TikTok's relationship with China.

The meeting, which lasted more than five hours, highlighted growing concerns in the Chinese government about TikTok's potential influence.

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