Mukesh Ambani's RIL in talks with parent ByteDance to acquire TikTok in India

[Ryzen_renoir]

Gujju mafia is bigger threat than Chinese facist party 

[tom brady]

That sheer suddenness in the move...the masterstroke 

[Bhumchik]

54 minutes ago, DummyVariable said:

Building a sustainable market base is hard tbf. 

Tiktok was developed in 200 days and is not sustainable. Most users posting videos don’t make a penny. Some top influencers with a huge following (more than 500K followers) may be making money but most small users don’t other than some instant gratification from posting videos from their mobiles. Tiktok doesn’t pay users anything and users need to get their own brand deals as influencers.

what is sustainable is when the company makes money (without burning investor funds) while also allowing users to make money to keep them loyal to the platform and they both grow for mutual benefit (sustainability as its core value). YouTube is one of the best examples of sustainable business.

For that matter, Quora is not sustainable either - even though it is valued over 2B dollars. they may be making money through their advertising platform but users make nothing for answering questions other than building their personal brand and reputation which they could do better on other platforms - while also making money. Most questions are FAKE auto generated by Quora itself which people don’t realize. Quora is known to post AND also answer their own questions from the beginning and they are still continuing that practice - like, “Who is buying iPads in 2020?”, “Why are Apple products so expensive?”. It is just investors speculating growth and pouring funds into it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=quora+valuation

over 40% of users on Quora are Indians.

Over 35% of users on tiktok are Indians.

Obviously, platforms become unsustainable wherever Indians go!

[raaajaaa]

Anandi anandi enni Anna modi sir elections mundu Pakistan lo yepa chettu pina China lo eetha chettu Pina oka 2bomb lu esthe chalu

[DummyVariable]

27 minutes ago, Bhumchik said:

Tiktok was developed in 200 days and is not sustainable. Most users posting videos don’t make a penny. Some top influencers with a huge following (more than 500K followers) may be making money but most small users don’t other than some instant gratification from posting videos from their mobiles. Tiktok doesn’t pay users anything and users need to get their own brand deals as influencers.

what is sustainable is when the company makes money (without burning investor funds) while also allowing users to make money to keep them loyal to the platform and they both grow for mutual benefit (sustainability as its core value). YouTube is one of the best examples of sustainable business.

For that matter, Quora is not sustainable either - even though it is valued over 2B dollars. they may be making money through their advertising platform but users make nothing for answering questions other than building their personal brand and reputation which they could do better on other platforms. Most questions are FAKE auto generated by Quora itself which people don’t realize. Quora is known to post AND answer their own questions from the beginning and they are still continuing that practice - like, “Who is buying iPads in 2020?”, “Why are Apple products so expensive?”. It is just investors speculating growth and pouring funds into it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=quora+valuation

over 40% of users on Quora are Indians.

Over 35% of users on tiktok are Indians.

Obviously, platforms become unsustainable wherever Indians go!

Does it really matter how many days it took to build? They are paying for the user base one would think. We can maybe say that it is not monetarily sustainable now, but the user base is there that can make it financially sustainable too. Did YouTube make profits during the initial years? It will take time. For now it has the numbers (users) that are sustainable. It has a user base that keeps going back to it unlike quora. It has people logging into it. There is entertainment value to it too. Most people on it are real. You can reach out to people through it. That is value. It may not be making a dear dollar now, but anyone buying it would be thinking along those lines. 

[dasari4kntr]

8 hours ago, DummyVariable said:

Naw just trying to allude to the fact that jio was under Reliance, but is being/got sold..

ok

[mustang302]

7 hours ago, raaajaaa said:

Anandi anandi enni Anna modi sir elections mundu Pakistan lo yepa chettu pina China lo eetha chettu Pina oka 2bomb lu esthe chalu

Kamedy ni mingoooo.🤣🤣🤣

[Picheshwar]

9 hours ago, dasari4kntr said:

not facebook...they can reuse insta with some additional features...

initially microsoft and twitter was in race...

but now reliance came....

what a masterstroke...

I guess ril is interested in tt india 

and msft, Twitter we’re vying for tt us

[Picheshwar]

7 hours ago, raaajaaa said:

Anandi anandi enni Anna modi sir elections mundu Pakistan lo yepa chettu pina China lo eetha chettu Pina oka 2bomb lu esthe chalu

Dani meeda 2 movie lu... theatre la lo janalaki goosebumps 

[Bhumchik]

8 hours ago, DummyVariable said:

Does it really matter how many days it took to build? They are paying for the user base one would think. We can maybe say that it is not monetarily sustainable now, but the user base is there that can make it financially sustainable too. Did YouTube make profits during the initial years? It will take time. For now it has the numbers (users) that are sustainable. It has a user base that keeps going back to it unlike quora. It has people logging into it. There is entertainment value to it too. Most people on it are real. You can reach out to people through it. That is value. It may not be making a dear dollar now, but anyone buying it would be thinking along those lines. 

I mentioned 200 days because Microsoft could make the same app in 100 days or less and a better product.

Tiktok users are mostly young generation with virtually no buying power. So, not much there to monetize on.