MRBEAST
Jimmy Donaldson is known as MRBEAST on YouTube, who is interested in buying short video applications. In the X post on January 14, Donalson said that “many billionaires” were in contact with him and they were interested in acquiring Tiktok with him.
Donaldson’s YouTube channel has more than 350 million subscribers, and it is estimated that net assets are $ 500 million. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Donaldson and a group of investors led by entrepreneur Jesse Tinsley joined Tiktok’s new US business with a new bid. TIKTOK’s US business is estimated to be worth $ 50 billion, while its parent company is worth $ 300 billion.
Elon Musk (Elon Musk)
According to reports, the money was reported earlier that Chinese officials were evaluating whether Tingkoc can be sold to Elon Musk, which shows that the Chinese government has affected the ability of Bontedance’s business decision -making.
President Trump said he would buy the application if he would be willing to “want to”. Unlike MRBEAST, Musk’s net assets are $ 423 billion, which is easy to afford purchase. He has not clarified whether he is interested in Tiktok.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO are also owners of X, X, which used to be Twitter. Therefore, he may take a closer look at Tiktok. Not to mention, he is close to Trump and dub His dubbing as a “first friend”, which can cause allegations.
Larry Ellison
So far, Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, is Tiktok’s most promising owner. “I hope Larry will buy it,” Trump last week was A potential transaction was mentioned at the press conference. A few days later, the NPR reported that the White House was negotiating with Oracle and external investors to reach the agreement. ELLISON is currently the executive chairman and chief technical office of Oracle.
ELLISON also tried to reach an agreement to operate Tiktok in the United States after Trump executed an order in 2020. Oracle has been connected with Tiktok. Since 2023, Bytedance has been using Oracle to host the US user data in TIKTOK’s US operation. CHEW, CEO of Tiktok, led the work to reduce the concerns of US regulators’ concerns about data privacy.
Other
Last week, it was reported that the CLLEXITY AI bid merged with Tiktok to create a new company entity. AI, a high -altitude, is worth $ 9 billion, which means that a large amount of external capital is required to make this transaction possible.
Other potential buyers include the Project Liberty of Charity Frank McCourt, which is raised by raising funds to bid Tiktok to “re -search platforms” and protect user data. McCourt is a billionaire, which used to have the Baseball team of the Los Angeles Dodge. The project was supported by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
Other potential bidders include Trump’s former financial minister Steve Mnuchin, Shark tank investor Kevin O’Leary and private equity company Atlantic.
