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Kevin O’Leary. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Tv-profilen vill köpa Tiktok – till 90 procents rabatt

Den kanadensiske affärsmannen och ”Shark Tank”-profilen Kevin O’Leary tänker ge Steven Mnuchin en fajt ifall Tiktok läggs ut till försäljning. O’Leary säger till CNBC att han håller på att samla en egen grupp investerare som kan lägga ett bud på bolaget.

69-åringen bedömer att ett eventuellt startbud skulle kunna landa på 20–30 miljarder dollar. Det är cirka 90 procent lägre än vad Tiktok värderades till 2023.

O’Leary anser att en kraftig rabatt är berättigad eftersom Kinas regering knappast lär gå med på att sälja videoappens algoritmer.

– Så vad du får är det värdefulla varumärket Tiktok och 170 miljoner användare, men utan data, säger han.

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Kevin O'Leary
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Terrence Thomas Kevin O'Leary (born July 9, 1954), sometimes called Mr. Wonderful or Maple Man, is a Canadian businessman, investor, journalist, and television personality. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news programs SqueezePlay and The Lang and O'Leary Exchange, as well as the Canadian reality television shows Dragons' Den and Redemption Inc. In 2008, he appeared on Discovery Channel's Project Earth. Since 2009, he has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den. O'Leary co-founded SoftKey Software Products, a technology company that sold software geared toward family education and entertainment. During the late 1980s and 1990s, SoftKey became a major consolidator in the global educational software market, having acquired rival companies via hostile takeover bids, such as Compton's New Media, The Learning Company, and Broderbund. SoftKey later changed its name to The Learning Company and was acquired by Mattel in 1999, with the sale making O'Leary a multimillionaire. Mattel then fired him after the acquisition which resulted in significant losses and multiple shareholder lawsuits.In 2017, he campaigned to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was a frontrunner in the polls during much of that time but dropped out in April 2017, one month before the election, citing a lack of support in Quebec.

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