ByteDance headquarters in Beijing. Credit: Imaginechina via AP Images
ByteDance became one of the world’s most valuable, privately-owned companies — arguably the most valuable — in just eight years. How did it get there?
For this week’s Big Picture, we took a look at the investors that built ByteDance into the company that it is today. Its earliest funding, for instance, came from the Chinese affiliate of an American firm, the Susquehanna International Group, alongside Chi
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