Who is Shou Zi Chew, the embattled TikTok CEO from Singapore?

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According to Chew, who is a native English speaker and proficient in Mandarin, he enrolled in an elite high school after securing high marks in a national exam at age 12.According toChew has said that he once had to undertake a five-day survival course in the jungles of Brunei as part of his military training. He had to build a hut, cook wild yams and trek for over 88 km. He was also given a live quail to kill and eat but didn’t reveal in the interview if he did that.

In 2008, he moved to the US to study at Harvard Business School. A year later, while studying at Harvard, Chew worked as an intern at Facebook — the social media giant, which was, at the time, still a modest start-up.Shou Zi Chew and Vivian Kao attend the 2022 Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

At the Congressional hearing, Representative Nanette Barragán of the Democratic Party asked Chew if his children use TikTok. He said they didn’t because they live in Singapore where an under-13 version of the app is not available. He, however, added that he would allow his kids to use it if they live in the US where a children’s version is available and used.Chew graduated from Harvard in 2010 and took up a job with venture-capital firm DST Global in Hong Kong.

He liked the company’s idea of the app so much that he said, “The idea is so simple but so powerful: that you should be looking at content not based on who you know, but really based on your own behavior.”In 2021, Chew became the finance chief of ByteDance at Zhang’s request. But he left the position within two months to take on the CEO’s role at TikTok, where he succeeded Kevin Mayer, a former Walt Disney Co. Executive.

 

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I feel he is too soft. No need to admit anything. Instead ask them to prove it.

Shouldn't have admitted anything. Ask them to prove it. I am sure they can't prove anything.

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