Tik Tok, launched in 2016, has been downloaded over 2 billion times and recently brought in Disney’s streaming guru, Mark Mayer, as their new CEO.



The parent company, Bytedance, is the world’s most valuable startup and has a private valuation of between $105 billion and $110 billion, with talk that it could be worth up to $180 billion in an IPO.



But with on-going privacy and censorship issues with the US rumbling in the background, is this their Facebook or Snapchat moment?

Tik Tok, launched in 2016, has been downloaded over 2 billion times and recently brought in Disney&rsquo;s streaming guru, Mark Mayer, as their new CEO.

The parent company, Bytedance, is the world&rsquo;s most valuable startup and has a private valuation of between $105 billion and $110 billion, with talk that it could be worth up to $180 billion in an IPO.

But with on-going privacy and censorship issues with the US rumbling in the background, is this their Facebook or Snapchat moment?

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