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The TikTok acquisition saga continues, like a real series with twists and turns. After being inaccessible for several hours, the platform got back on its feet thanks to Donald Trump, who signed a decree to save it from disappearing on American soil. Now the question of the future buyer arises, because Bytedance, its parent company, will in any case be forced to give up its jewel. In Silicon Valley as well as on social networks, interested parties are rushing to the door and negotiations are accelerating around an operation estimated at between 40 and 100 billion dollars.
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Jesse Tinsley, who heads up human resources management company Employer.com, has been on a acquisition spree lately. After announcing last month that he was buying Bench, a Canadian accounting startup that abruptly shut down over the holidays, he has now embarked on an even bigger deal.
The latter has teamed up with Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast. The world's most-followed content creator with over 240 million subscribers on YouTube, whose empire has been reeling since the fall for obscure reasons. Together, they submitted an all-cash offer to acquire TikTok, according to information from the columns of Bloomberg.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000The exact amount of their offer has not been revealed, but their team has acquired major assets, notably by securing the services of Brad Bondi as legal counsel. This choice is not insignificant: Brad is the brother of Pam Bondi, expected to be Attorney General of the United States in the future Trump administration. She will therefore perhaps head the Department of Justice; a clear political connection that could prove decisive in a case where geopolitical and regulatory issues are at the forefront.
Faced with this alliance, Elon Musk emerges as a serious competitor. The billionaire, who already bought (and sabotaged?) Twitter, transforming it into X, is carefully studying the TikTok file.
The future of TikTok is now being played out between several consortiums: the MrBeast-Employer.com alliance, the giants Amazon and Oracle, and a group of investors led by Frank McCourt, who had already shown interest in a takeover a few months ago. The technical complexity of a ByteDance-TikTok split, coupled with national security concerns, certainly makes this transaction one of the most complex in tech history… but also one of the most expensive.
- TikTok, briefly suspended in the United States, is to be sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, under government pressure.
- Jesse Tinsley and MrBeast have proposed a cash offer to buy the app, with politically strategic legal backing.
- Elon Musk, Amazon, Oracle and other investors are actively competing for this offer in a deal estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars.
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