ByteDance executive Louis Yang Luyu, co-founder of lip-synch video app Musical.ly that was absorbed by TikTok in 2018, has quit the world's most valuable unicorn amid a sweeping corporate ...

Chinese entrepreneurs Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang launched Musical.ly in 2014, according to Vox. It was later acquired by ByteDance, which already owned Douyin, TikTok's Chinese counterpart.

Last week, I spoke to its host, Shelly Banjo, who explained how a goofy app called Musical.ly was bought by app giant ByteDance and became the defining platform for a generation. Below ...

Several of those firms got into ByteDance indirectly through Musical.ly, a lip-syncing app acquired by ByteDance in 2017. Qiming Venture Partners, whose former partner JP Gan made the 2022 Midas ...

ByteDance was founded by Zhang Yiming ... It also bought popular lip syncing app musical.ly, and moved those users onto TikTok in 2018. The app’s popularity has since gone global.

What you might not know, however, is that the TikTok we know started out life not as a ByteDance property, nor as "TikTok" itself; rather, the app was originally called Musical.ly, and was ...

(Yu left the company in November 2018, shortly after ByteDance rebranded Musical.ly as TikTok.) A spokesperson for ByteDance told Engadget: "We plan to vigorously oppose what we believe are ...

July 2015 Musical.ly hits #1 in the Apple App Store, following a design change that made the company's logo visible when users shared their videos. ByteDance acquires Musical.ly for $1 billion.

Yang’s account on Feishu, the corporate collaboration tool of ByteDance, has been “suspended”, which indicates the user was not working, according to three employees with knowledge of the ...