On the second day of the APEC CEO Summit 2024 there will be one of the most anticipated presentations. Shou Zi Chew, CEO of the giant TikTok, will give a keynote talk on how online communities drive real-world impact. The ‘keynote’ of the executive who has run TikTok since 2022 will open the day at 9 am You will be able to follow part of the talk with the reflections of the leader of this technological giant through the El Comercio YouTube account in this link.
This will be the first visit to Peru of Chew and of course it has generated enormous expectations. The Singaporean executive is today one of the most important personalities in the technology sector.
Before leading the growth of this Chinese social network from 2022, he was financial director of ByteDance, owner of TikTok; He held a similar position at Xiaomi and even worked at Facebook. TikTokwhich was born in 2016 in China, knew how to make its way quickly. By 2018 it had already managed to expand to 150 markets and during the pandemic this social network was even stronger.
In 2023, the Chinese giant obtained revenues of US$16.1 billion, an increase of 67% compared to the previous year, and reached 1.5 billion active users last year, according to ByteDance and the TikTok report carried out by the specialized firm Business of Apps.
In Peru, TikTok has conquered Peruvians: we are one of the five countries that uses the app the most, according to the Digital News Report 2024 of the Reuters Institute. So far, according to Statista, the Chinese social network has 17 million users in Peru.
