Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok

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Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard who stepped down at the end of last year, is apparently interested in buying TikTok as a new, Kotick mentioned the idea of partnering on such a purchase to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others seated with him at a conference dinner last week, and brought it up with ByteDance Executive Chair Zhang Yiming.

, the company was accused of fostering sexual harassment and gender discrimination under his leadership, in what was described as a “pervasive frat boy workplace culture.”soon after reported that Kotick was aware of misconduct and assault allegations over the years and did not properly disclose some of these instances to the board.

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