TikTok co-founder quits ByteDance after edtech experiment flop

Louis Yang, a co-founder of Musical.ly – the app acquired by ByteDance that morphed into TikTok – quit his job at the Beijing-based firm last week, according to a person familiar with the matter. — ByteDance

One of TikTok’s original creators has left its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd after Beijing’s year-long regulatory crackdown scuppered an expansion into gaming and education.

Louis Yang, a co-founder of Musical.ly – the app acquired by ByteDance that morphed into TikTok – quit his job at the Beijing-based firm last week, according to a person familiar with the matter. Yang was last in charge of ByteDance’s foray into educational gadgets, which was frustrated by Bejing’s clampdown on online tutoring services and apps last summer, said the person, asking not to be identified discussing private information.