Evidence receipt / preference
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: preference
9 Dec 2019 Acquired TikTok
“I’m not using something not built here. I’m using a social media app like any other.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- preference
- Recorded
- 9 Dec 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- TikTok
Transcript context
…Yes, Sta. Monica. Sta. Monica office, there was a North America GM. Another Alex, Alex Hoffman who was running that so well that the perception by most American using this was this is not a Chinese app. I’m not using something not built here. I’m using a social media app like any other. I think that the product team in Sta. Monica had a lot to do with that. Totally, but of course, Alex and Louis are the co-CEOs of the company. Apparently acquisition talks were quite serious but the deal falls apart and hasn’t been reported why, I don’t know if it was regulatory concerns.…
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