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Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang don't sound very Californian to me.
by ahbyb 7y ago
Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang don't sound very Californian to me.
- 0xffff2 7y agoReally? As both a SoCal and Bay Area resident name alone would tell me absolutely nothing about whether someone was a native to either area.
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoTheir public LinkedIn profiles say that they went to university in China. They're Chinese.
- icebraining 7y agoProbably true. Of course, them being Chinese has nothing to do with where the startup was founded.
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoThat's true, of course. However, every source I can find says that the company was founded in Shanghai, but ended up being more successful in the American than the Chinese market, and opened up offices in California. Most of the engineers are supposedly in Shanghai, though. One more detail is that the founders appear to have worked in Silicon Valley before founding the company. Whether any of this makes any difference, as far as US law goes, I don't know. 1. https://www.businessinsider.de/what-is-musically-2016-5 https://www.businessinsider.de/what-is-musically-2016-5 2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bytedance-musically/chinas-bytedance-scrubs-musical-ly-brand-in-favor-of-tiktok-idUSKBN1KN0BW https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bytedance-musically/china... 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTyg2E44pBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTyg2E44pBA
- Angeo34 7y agoNeither do German (What you Americans call Jewish) or Russian/Ukrainian names sound English yet they are by far the biggest majority of your country way ahead of the Anglos. More likely than not a European American has its roots somewhere in Central or Eastern Europe.