YouTube icon MrBeast is joining forces with Roblox CEO with an offer to buy TikTok that’s over $20B dollars to outbid Kevin O’Leary, but the content mogul might still side with the Shark Tank star.
MrBeast, one of most successful Internet creators, may join a bid by real estate mogul and Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt to buy TikTok's U.S. arm, McCourt told Axios' Sara Fischer in Davos Wednesday.
MrBeast himself hasn’t publicly commented on which side he’ll choose yet. “The leading groups who are all credible [sic] bidding on Tik Tok have reached out for us to help them, I’m excited to partner/make this a reality,” he posted on Wednesday.
A group of American investors, including YouTube star MrBeast and Roblox CEO David Baszucki, has secured over $20 billion for a potential TikTok takeover, but ByteDance has yet to respond to their bid.
Multiple investors are going into a bidding war. A consortium of American investors is planning to acquire TikTok, reported Bloomberg. Led by
Then on Wednesday, MrBeast upped his effort to purchase the imperiled short ... several prominent names have emerged as potential U.S. buyers. Billionaire investor Frank McCourt has made a bid, partnering with Canadian investor and regular Shark Tank ...
The high-profile names who could potentially buy TikTok following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law banning the platform in the US.
Other potential buyers include the philanthropist Frank Mccourt ’s Project Liberty, which is raising capital to make a bid for TikTok in order to “rearchitect the platform” and protect user data. McCourt is a billionaire who previously owned the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. The project is supported by the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has teamed up with Employer.com CEO Jesse Tinsley and other investors in an all-cash offer for the social platform.
Speculation is rising around MrBeast's bid in buying TikTok, but Kevin O'Leary remains firm that his $20 billion offer is the "only" one that has the coding and technology capabilities.
A high-stakes bidding war for TikTok's U.S. operations is heating up. A group of American investors, led by tech entrepreneur Jesse Tinsley and backed by YouTube giant MrBeast, has lined up over $20 billion to make a play for the social media powerhouse.
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.