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TikTok found all of those people very quickly, they famously don't use a public cloud provider. Infra isn't magic.


TikTok has 100k employees and shoes shits money.


Not sure what "shoes shits money" means, but contextually they had $9.9B in revenue for the year 2022 and an operational expenditure of $9.4B.

I believe this means they generated $500m for bytedance, but I can't find a good citation, bytedance itself generated $6B in profits though for the fiscal year 2022

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342785/bytedance-key-qu...


> Infra isn't magic.

No, but you're definitely dealing with the Arthur C. Clarke quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.




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