- TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is the company’s public face, rallying its fans and testifying before Congress.
- He went to Harvard Business School and interned at Facebook when it was a startup.
- TikTok said it would go dark on Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld a law requiring it to sell or face a ban.
TikTok is under a lot of pressure right now.
As US lawmakers worry the video-sharing platform, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, poses a danger to national security, TikTok is scrambling to fight a law requiring it be sold to a US owner by January 19 or else risk being banned in the country.
TikTok said it would “go dark” for American users on the scheduled deadline after the US Supreme Court upheld the law.
So, who’s leading the company through this turbulent period?
That would be Shou Zi Chew, TikTok’s CEO from Singapore, who got his start as an intern at Facebook.
Here’s a rundown on TikTok’s head honcho:
