President Donald Trump gave the social media platform more time to comply with a law that requires it to divest its Chinese ownership.
After various videos and comments about wanting to buy TikTok so it doesn’t get banned, MrBeast has helped put in an offer.
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has teamed up with Employer.com CEO Jesse Tinsley and other investors in an all-cash offer for the social platform.
President Donald Trump had recently expressed his support in SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok.
MrBeast, the internet’s most-followed and highest-earning content creator, has joined a new bid to buy TikTok.
Jimmy Donaldson — better known online as MrBeast — isn’t in the TikTok bidding race just yet, according to a representative for the YouTube star
YouTube personality “MrBeast” Jimmy Donaldson and a group of investors tapped Brad Bondi, the brother of President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department, for legal advice on their bid to buy TikTok.
Donaldson posted a jokey message on X on January 13 that read, "Okay fine, I'll buy Tik Tok so it doesn't get banned." A day later,
Paul Hastings is advising a consortium of investors on an all-cash offer to acquire TikTok's US operations and assets from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. The investor group, led by entrepreneur Jesse Tinsley,
Paul Hastings has hired Willkie Farr & Gallagher digital media and music chair Sidney Fohrman. Clients Fohrman has represented include Banc of California, BMG Rights Management, TikTok, Warner Music Group and Primary Wave Entertainment.
The guy who brought you a bunch of dumb online videos wants to buy the site that distributes dumb online videos.
After the bipartisan TikTok law was signed by former President Joe Biden in April, ByteDance said it did not have plans to sell the platform and fought the statute in court for months. China also rebuked Washington over the divestment push, though more recently it appears to be softening its stance.