A Closer Look At Shou Zi Chew, TikTok's New CEO

Anyone trying to get the lowdown on the new CEO of TikTok might find it a little tricky. At the time of writing, Shou Zi Chew doesn't yet have his own Wikipedia page, while many of the usual "cheat sheet" websites that deign to give you access to a public figure's net worth and investments are all surprisingly uninformative.

But many details about the rising businessman's life are out there, beginning with the fact that he has made it to the role of CEO before the age of 40. The South China Morning Post reports that Chew is currently just 38 years old, the same age as ByteDance's founder.

Per the same source, Singapore-born Chew has an impressive resume, having graduated with a degree in economics from the prestigious University College London, after which he worked for a spell in the U.K. capital for investment giant Goldman Sachs. Thereafter, while studying for an MBA at Harvard Business School, the new TikTok CEO met his equally business-minded partner, Vivian Kao, also at the time a Harvard MBA student, per the Harvard website. After both graduating in 2010, Chew and Kao married, and now live in Beijing with their two young children. Before joining ByteDance, according to Harvard, Chew worked for many years at the Chinese tech company Xiaomi and helped to take the company public.

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