Kevin Mayer’s adventure in ByteDance lasted just a few months. Coming from Disney, the manager last June had taken on the position of chief operating officer for the Chinese holding and CEO of TikTok, the micro-video social network in the eye of the storm.
The first to report the news of his resignation was the Financial Times, which cites a letter from the manager sent to the company’s employees. “It is with a heavy heart that I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave the company,” Mayer wrote in the communication. His role will be held ad interim by the group’s general manager, Vanessa Pappas.
Mayer’s step backwards comes after particularly heavy weeks for the Chinese company, in which – to verbal threats from various figures in the US administration – Trump’s executive orders followed that effectively force the revenge of TikTok’s activities in the country. Decisions that the same social network has decided to challenge, bringing the American government to court.
