“Employer.com’s CEO, Jessie Tinsley, along with internet celebrity MrBeast, have allegedly submitted an all-cash offer for the social media platform, TikTok – marking what could game up to be one of the most audacious acquisition attempts of the year.
Their entry into the bidding war followed swiftly on the tail of Employer.com’s announcement last month to acquire the Canadian accounting start-up, Bench. As for TikTok, the exact sum put forward by the group remains undisclosed. The parties backing this daring offer include the legal counsel of Brad Bondi, sibling to Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi.
This deal transpires amidst TikTok’s turbulence – the app briefly went offline last Saturday, though the crisis was averted shortly before President Trump signed an executive order delaying an impending ban by seventy-five days. Whether ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is genuinely contemplating this bid or not, remains unclear. Among other high-profile potential suitors for TikTok are Elon Musk, Oracle, Amazon, and a consortium led by billionaire Frank McCourt.”
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