(Reuters) – TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has left the firm, lower than three months after he joined the hit short video app, and U.S. overall manager Vanessa Pappas will exchange him on an meantime foundation, in accordance with an interior memo viewed by Reuters.
The method comes days after TikTok sued the Trump administration over an govt express banning transactions within the US with the usual short-possess video-sharing app.
Mayer became as soon as Walt Disney’s high streaming govt earlier than he joined TikTok on June 1. He became as soon as also appointed chief running officer of TikTok’s Chinese guardian, ByteDance, on the time.
“In most up-to-date weeks, because the political ambiance has sharply changed, I even own carried out critical reflection on what the corporate structural changes would require, and what it capability for the worldwide feature I signed up for,” Mayer said within the letter.
“In distinction backdrop, and as we demand to reach a resolution very soon, it is a long way with a heavy coronary heart that I wanted to enable you to all know that I even own made up our minds to fade the firm.”
TikTok, in an emailed commentary, confirmed the departure and said that the political dynamics of the final few months had “significantly changed” the scope of Mayer’s feature.
ByteDance founder and CEO Zhang Yiming said in a separate letter that the firm became as soon as “shifting swiftly to obtain resolutions to the points that we face globally, particularly within the U.S. and India.”
He said Mayer had joined the firm factual because it became as soon as “entering arguably our most grand second.”
“It’s beneath no instances easy to method aid into a management space in a firm shifting as swiftly as we are, and the instances following his arrival made it the total extra advanced,” Zhang said.
(Reporting by Yingzhi Yang in Beijing, Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru, and Katie Paul in San Francisco, modifying by Anil D’Silva and Christopher Cushing.)
