First, I presume that you know, there are two Tik Toks in this world. A Chinese version called « Dou Yin », then another international version called « tik tok ». They are the same, but due to different audience, and the existence of Great Fire Wall, bytedance, its mother company, separated the business. 

And, I also presume that you know the real boss of Tik Tok is not that cute Singaporean you saw on TV in the American Congress, it’s a skinny average-looking Chinese man called Zhang Yiming. 

With these two premises, I’ll lead you to Tik Tok’s story from the beginning in China. 

Let’s start from 2011, it’s the real time when short video rose up in China, and Doyin was just one of them, and at the time  no one really cared short video in general. Because at the beginning, it was mainly use ...