That same day, real estate billionaire Frank McCourt, who has made his own $20 billion bid for TikTok, told Axios that MrBeast is going to be a part of his bid. However, MrBeast is only in talks with McCourt and the parties have not entered into an official agreement,

U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control of the asset, he told Reuters at the Davos event on Thursday.