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Opinion
Evans: The Chinese government has absolute control over the ByteDance CEO
“ByteDance is a Chinese company. The government can go to the CEO of ByteDance and do this, and he does what he's told, and he doesn't have a choice. It, You know, who owns the shares is completely irrelevant. They tell him what to do and he does it or he goes,…”
Benedict Evans Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 17:43 Ukraine
Assertion Supported
Evans: Amazon ad revenue makes it a top-four global media owner
“And they did, I think, thirty one billion dollars last year, and they've done like 36, thirty seven billion dollars in the last 12 months which gets them to being like a top three, top four media owner. Globally. It's like Alphabet, Meta, ByteDance and then I …”
Benedict Evans Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 21:57 All the other things happening in tech part 1.
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