I get a call and I answer, hello, and there's this guy in the other end.

Yeah, you emailed my daughter, he goes, she's 12th, and I was like, okay, you know, sorry

about that.

And he goes, yeah, listen, everything's all right, but you got to answer me this one question.

Why does she come home from school and say that she needs a manager?

And I'm like, well, I don't know, maybe it's because she has 900,000 fans on TikTok.

There was a time when most adults didn't know what TikTok was.

If you haven't heard of TikTok, TikTok is the most addicting app in the entire world.

If you get it, I'm warning you, you will be on it for four hours, just scrolling through

your four-year page.

Most people still don't know the real story.

One day I was on Kau Trin from Mountain View to San Francisco, and on that train, there

was a lot of high school students, and I was observing their behavior.

How two mysterious tech founders from China captured the attention of an entire generation?

You know, I think there was some natural skepticism of like, hey, can we trust these guys?

We've had issues in China with intellectual property.

Infiltrated American pop culture.

You identify a couple of whales, you pay them for a certain number of posts and then

sort of a flywheel from there, because, you know, the internet is like high school cafeterias.

The second the popular kids do it, everyone wants to get in.

Went to battle with Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants.

And when I brought up the Chinese internet companies, I think that that's a real strategic

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