TikTok’s Managing Director Talks About the App’s Future

The shortform video sharing app has had a wild 12 months. The next year will be even crazier. But what is TikTok? And where’s it going?

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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6 min readDec 27, 2019

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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