Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he would. He has no money but is looking for investors to buy TikTok's American business. That's why he went on television on Thursday to talk about his theoretical plans.
Another theoretical contender for TikTok is former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick (he may be the man who had a small role in one of the best movies of the last few decades). He has no money either. But he attended the Fancy Pants conference last week and floated the idea of a partner buying TikTok at a table that included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to the Wall Street Journal.
But there is no reason to stop. Anyone, anywhere can say they want to buy TikTok. Try it yourself. All you have to do is stand up and say, “I want to buy Tik Tok!”
Boom: You're currently reviewing the proposed offer for TikTok.
(What a good heart! I had no money. More later.)
Let's pause here to point out that in the real world, for someone to buy TikTok's US operations from current owner ByteDance, the following would have to happen:
The US Senate must pass the anti-TikTok bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. (Joe Biden has previously said he will sign the bill as soon as it reaches his desk.)
The bill must also withstand a legal challenge from ByteDance.
The Chinese government should change its current stance and not allow ByteDance to sell its operations in the United States.
So these are a series of obstacles. Then add a bunch of money. Because ByteDance's finances are so opaque (and because this theoretical sale would be forced), no one knows how much. However, estimates of the actual purchase range from $40 to "hundreds of billions of dollars." It's easier than raising $7 trillion, but no small feat.
Also, since ByteDance already has investors in the US, they would likely be candidates to buy the spin-off company.
But if anyone else wants to buy TikTok, I have the perfect candidate.
He doesn't have any money either. But that's not the real problem. The real problem is that you need a time machine to achieve this.
please be patient. To be fair, my plan will require more effort than Steve Mnuchin or Bobby Kotick to raise a lot of money, but Elon Musk will build a time machine and make it to early 2022. I plan to travel to this country.
You may remember Elon Musk in 2022. He is the richest person in the world, very famous and highly respected in the world of technology and business. Is there some roughness? Naturally. But mostly it's the guy who invented the electric car and will take us to Mars, even if none of it is actually true.
And Elon Musk would be a strong candidate to buy TikTok's US operations. It's entirely possible he's investing billions of his own money into it, and investors will be clamoring to close the gap.
The selling point is simple: Elon Musk. He invented the electric car. I'm going to Mars. You can definitely run video programs for teen dancers.
Frankly, this argument works well in 2024. If Musk hadn't paid $44 billion to Twitter instead. It later turned out that it was unable to launch the consumer application.
You're reading this story so there's no need to list Musk's failures, he wants you to call X. But even Musk's most ardent fans recognized all the qualities that allowed him to create cars. Missiles cannot be transferred to social networks.
Per Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee who famously welcomed Musk and his “tough” philosophy at the company, was later fired: “Elon has an exceptional talent for solving complex physical problems, but he wants products that facilitate human connection and communication. Another is 'social-emotional intelligence'.
see If you really want to overdo it, you could argue that Musk's relationship with Twitter—he's addicted to it and has enormous power over it—made him particularly vulnerable to stupid decisions on Twitter. musk like others.
So you can actually be a better TikTok owner because short videos aren't your thing and distance can clear up your erratic thoughts and behavior.
But this way of thinking is a bit more basic than the time machine we have to work with now with this theory.
We know that in 2024, Musk has grown into someone you definitely don't want running a social network.
0 Comments