- TikTok, the viral video-sharing app, is headed up by Alex Zhu, as revealed in a recent New York Times profile.
- Zhu is the cofounder and former co-CEO of Musical.ly, a US lip-syncing app that TikTok's parent company ByteDance acquired for $1 billion, then shut down and merged into TikTok in 2018.
- Here's everything we know about the 40-year-old Zhu, who has kept a relatively low profile in his time since Musical.ly shut down and is in charge with heading up TikTok.
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