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Just over a decade ago, I pulled a 24-hour shift with Calfire, drove my beaten Coroll to work and dreamed of building something bigger than me. Today I run a group of American investors who have filed an offer buy Tiktok’s American operations. Life comes to you quickly, right?
But there’s a matter – it’s not just a job. This is about the protection of what regular Americans have built on Tictok, at the same time ensuring that it remain faithful to American values. And as someone who built his own business from nothing but sweating and determination, I know something or two about the construction of something worth protecting.
When I started a company that would become an employer.com, it was just me, my laptop and endless cups of coffee in Temple Coffee Roasters at the center of Sacramento. No fantastic VC support, no confidential fund, no security network. Only a firefighter who believed he could help connect good people with good jobs. Sounds familiar? It is the story of a myriad of creator and owner of small businesses in Tictok.
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Otherwise I still drive that Coroll. Even after the construction of the employer.com in what is today. Because success is not in imaginative cars or offices in the corner – it is about staying faithful to your values and we remember where you came from. And just now we have to remember what Tictok is truly at his core: a platform built by regular people who share their lives, their dreams and their ideas with the world.
The Battle of the Salvation of the Ticter in the United States continues. Customers do not want to lose all the efforts that invest on a platform. (East)
Look, I understand concern about Chinese ownership. As someone whose company helps thousands of small businesses in managing their employees, I seriously take the privacy and security of data. But forbid the tictok directly? It’s like using a fireplace to insert a birthday candle. You may solve the immediate problem, but you will cause great unnecessary damage to the process.
When I was fighting a fire, we quickly learned that sometimes the best way to get something was getting ready for control over the situation, not just shutting down everything. This is exactly what we need here – American ownership of Tikict, so we can also protect our national interests, as well as a platform that millions of entrepreneurs and creators rely on.
Because of this, a group of colleagues of business leaders and investors join me in a reinforcement. We are not some of the Silicon Valley giant with billions in the bank. We are entrepreneurs who built companies from the ground up and understand the value of hard work and possibilities. Now we want to help protect the platform on which so many Americans build funds for living, connecting with new communities and expressing themselves.
From first hand, I saw the Tictok becoming a rescue line for small businesses. The owner of the Oak Park restaurant who doubled her job through Tiktok videos. The guy in Roseville, who left his corporate job to follow his passion for wood processing, building his entire user base on a platform. These are real people, with real dreams, build real companies.
When I started, I knew it was a chance of leaning against you. If people tell you that you are not big enough, you are not connected enough, not fantastic enough to succeed. But here’s what I learned: with enough determination, with enough grizz is a real opportunity, everyone can build something amazing.
This is what is here. Tictok is not just an app – it’s an opportunity for a platform for millions of Americans. Yes, it should be separated from Chinese ownership. Yes, we need to protect the data of Americans. But we have to do it in a way that keeps a platform that so diligent Americans rely on.
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I still work from Sacramento and I still drink coffee at Temple. Because, at the end of the day, it’s not about being the greatest or brightest – it’s about what is right and creating opportunities for others. That’s why we’re going to a plate. Because sometimes, the best person who protects something is someone who remembers how to build something from nothing.
So yes, let’s save the ticter. Not for algorithms or data or technology – but for millions of regular Americans who have built their dreams on this platform. Because if a Sacramenta firefighter can build a company that supports more than 10,000 small businesses today, imagine what the next generation of dreamers and builders could do with the right opportunity and a platform.
When I was fighting a fire, we quickly learned that sometimes the best way to get something was getting ready for control over the situation, not just shutting down everything.
Remember: It’s not about where you start – but where you are determined to go. And we are currently determined to maintain this platform alive for every American who uses it to persecute her dreams, just as I chased.
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We are grateful to President Donald Trump for giving time and the opportunity to save Ticto for US creators. We believe that we have outlined the best proposal for fulfilling the president’s goals of the protection of American national interests, ensuring user data and ensuring that Tiktok remains a safe space in which freedom of speech succeeds.
Let’s do that. Not for Wall Street, not for the Silicon Valley, but for Main Street, now. Because that’s what we came from, we came from and we fight for it.
