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Aya Lin · · 1 min readIn brief: Bytedance steps up big tech hiring to expand brand
- Bytedance Ltd. hired Facebook Inc. veteran Blake Chandlee as the first head of strategic partnerships for the Chinese startup’s viral app TikTok in a bid to expand its brand, Bloomberg reports.
- Chandlee spent about a decade working on Facebook’s business partnerships in Europe, Latin America and the US.
- Bytedance has already hired several executives from YouTube, including Vanessa Pappas, a seven-year veteran of the Google video service. She started as TikTok’s general manager in January.
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