(Text/Observer Network Yiming) In the face of the sudden blockade of the United States, Zhang Yiming made a voice.
At noon on August 3, the founder Zhang Yiming, the founder of the byte, issued an internal letter, responding to the problems faced by Tiktok's US business, and said that he actively cooperated with the investigation and did not give up to explore any possibilities.
The letter traced back to the experience of Tiktok in North America in the past year, saying that under the current situation, Tiktok's US business is facing CFIUS forced to be sold or for administrative orders to be banned by Tiktok in the United States.
Although we have repeatedly emphasized that we are a private enterprise and we are willing to take more technical solutions to eliminate our concerns, CFIUS still determines that byte beating must sell TIKTOK US business.
Zhang Yiming said that when looking for a solution, the three factors of users, teams, and companies will be considered.He admits that he has not fully decided the final solution. The outside world's attention and rumors about Tiktok may last for a while.
However, he claimed that he was full of confidence in the future of Tiktok.
The following is the full text of internal letter:
In the past few months, the company has encountered many challenges.Everyone should also see many rumors and speculations about the company these days.In current cases, Tiktok's US business is facing the possibility of being forced to be sold by CFIUS, or is banned by administrative orders for Tiktok products in the United States.
The current geopolitical and public opinion environment is becoming more and more complicated. We have a greater external pressure faced in some markets. The teams participating in the response in the past few weeks have been rotating day and night, working overtime, and striving for the best results.Although many details cannot be said on a large scale, I still want to do some synchronization with you as much as possible, and also talk about my thoughts.
In the past year, we have been actively cooperating with CFIUS's survey of the project we acquired Musical.ly at the end of 2017.Although we have repeatedly emphasized that we are a private enterprise and we are willing to take more technical solutions to eliminate our concerns, CFIUS still determines that byte beating must sell TIKTOK US business.We do not agree with this decision, because we have always insisted on ensuring user data security, platform neutrality and transparency.Considering the current environment, we must also face the decision of CFIUS and the administrative order of the US President, while not giving up to explore any possibilities.We tried to discuss with a technology company on the cooperation plan to form a plan to ensure that TIKTOK can continue to serve American users.
When looking for solutions, we consider three aspects:
1. Users.Tiktok is not only a product beating, as Vanessa said in the video yesterday, it should be the community of global users, so we will not treat it as an asset without life.In the process, we will do our best to protect the unique existence of Tiktok, and hope that Tiktok's user experience will be unsightly.
2. Team.Tiktok has attracted many people to join and condenses the efforts of many colleagues. For everyone, it is a job and a career.Especially for local colleagues in the crisis, their pressure is greater.I often think that if they work in a local business, such troubles should be much less.But from another perspective, joint challenges also make colleagues in different regions understand each other more.We will take the interests and development of the team as an important consideration.
3. Company.We hope to continue to work hard for the vision of Inspire Creativity Enrich Life, and continue to improve like product evolution, and become an excellent global enterprise.
We have not fully decided the final solution. The outside world's attention and rumors of Tiktok may last for a while.I hope that everyone can still maintain good morale in the hustle and bustle and challenge. Looking at it for a long time, trusting the company can make good judgments in a complex situation and give employees sufficient support.Through continuous innovation and firm implementation, we provide users with the best services, and maintaining their own high -speed growth is the most solid backing of the crisis.
Tiktok has become part of global culture, which is the window, canvas and bridges for users.Hundreds of millions of users gathered on the platform we created, created, connected to each other, bringing many joy and information to users.There are also so many people to create, operate, and realize their value on our platform.Think about this, I am confident about Tiktok's future.I also believe that we can win more trust.
As in the past, when we encounter difficulties, our team is particularly united, and everyone is also optimistic and tough.Thank you for your investment and dedication. It is also my own motivation for doing challenges with such an excellent team.Finally, I want to talk about it again. The byte beating is to be a trusted global company. It has never changed. In an era of great changes, it is even more worthy of effort.This is also a challenging journey.
