According to reports, MrBeast is now one of the investors trying to acquire TikTok. Jessie Tinsley, CEO of workforce management company Employer.com, is making one of the craziest acquisitions of the year.
First, Employer.com announced plans last month to acquire Canadian accounting startup Bench, which suddenly shut down over the holidays. Now, according to a report from Bloomberg, Tinsley and Employer.com have joined forces with Youku user MrBeast and others to save TikTok, submitting an all-cash bid for the app.
They have not disclosed the amount of the bid, and the group's legal advisers include Brad Bondi, the brother of Trump's attorney general pick, Pam Bondi.
TikTok briefly shut down last Saturday, but relaunched shortly before U.S. President Trump signed an executive order on Monday delaying any potential ban for 75 days.
According to Bloomberg, it is unclear whether TikTok owner ByteDance has seriously considered the offer. Other potential buyers include Elon Musk, Amazon, Oracle and a consortium led by billionaire Frank McCourt.