TikTok vs Instagram | Codename | 1

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

It’s July 2010, and Kevin Systrom is on holiday in Mexico when he has an idea for how to save his failing app: offer filters to make users’ photos more appealing. He gets back to San Francisco and teams up with his friend Mike Krieger. Together they launch Instagram, a platform that will revolutionize how we interact with society.

Meanwhile in Beijing, China, Zhang Yiming starts a news aggregator app powered by AI. It learns which stories users like and feeds them more of it, giving people what they want before they know it. This powerful algorithm will become the foundation for TikTok, an app that will become a proxy battleground for the feud between the U.S. and China.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon music.
0:04.6	Download the app today.
0:07.0	One, two, three.
0:10.0	One, two, three.
0:13.0	Here we go, Bob!
0:15.0	Team Bob Bob!
0:16.0	Let's go, it's on you!
0:17.0	Hi, Bob!
0:18.0	You guys did a fly!
0:19.0	June 2019, Hong Kong Central Business District.
0:24.0	Protesters outside a tall glass government building are chanting and shouting slogans like
0:29.0	Hong Kong never give up and waive the evil law.
0:33.0	They're a million strong and they are angry.
0:37.0	They're wielding umbrellas, a symbol of the pro-democracy movement.
0:41.0	Demonstrators are incensed by a new security law that would allow China to extradite Hong Kong residents to mainland China.
0:49.0	Activists fear the law would not only allow Beijing to tighten its grip on Hong Kong,
0:54.0	but would also be used to snuff out opposition.
0:58.0	The police have cordoned off the government building, but more people crowd the street pushing against the metal barricades.
1:05.0	It doesn't take long before all hell breaks loose.
1:10.0	Police fire rubber bullets at protesters, an officer dressed in head to toe black riot gear runs forward and lobs a canister of tear gas into the crowd.
1:19.0	Another officer yanks back the arms of a young activist and forces him into handcuffs.
1:24.0	An onlooker pulls out her phone and records the arrest, then she clicks share.
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