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Oh shit, it's August 4th.

I have this woman's hockey jersey I'm bidding on and it ends today.

This is episode 74 of the token CEO podcast.

You know we only drop this on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so it's gotta be a Tuesday.

Before we get into it, I just want to give a small shout out to Kevin Mayer.

I was, I played hockey last night and I was in the shower thinking about Microsoft buying TikTok,

which just shows you just truly how lame of a life I lead.

So I was in the shower.

I was thinking about TikTok and I was like, okay, so Kevin Mayer joined TikTok like,

I don't know, two months ago, Max, I would say it's definitely not more than two months ago.

And now there's this whole back and forth about TikTok and Trump and the government,

because Trump and the US administration feels that TikTok is just a ploy for China to steal

young Americans' data and their faces and you know anything and everything else about them.

TikTok has made a bunch of strides where they're offering to open up their algorithm,

which is actually pretty radical.

No social media or technology platform has ever offered to open up their algorithm.

When you see inside the algorithm, you can understand exactly what is happening in the code,

which tells you how data is being used, where data is going, what are the triggers for certain

actions, what are the behaviors that are modeled and sought after and prompted.

So the algorithm is really the backbone in the key to any technology platform.

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