"For three years in high school, I watched Chinese movies and had this incredibly eye-opening experience of feeling like, on the surface this was a very foreign and different language and culture, but through the movies, you could start to appreciate that actually so many of the themes are the same as what you would see in any typical Western movie."
"Presser previously served as TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's chief of staff between April 2022 and July 2023 before working his way up to head of operations and finally to TikTok's head of operations and trust & safety, according to his LinkedIn profile. Based in Los Angeles, Presser now has to tackle one of the most politically fraught jobs in tech: running TikTok's newly created U.S. entity as it tries to reassure Washington and retain users."
"He attended the private Harvard- Westlake School for high school. Then he went on to Yale, where he received an undergraduate degree in Chinese Language and an M.A. in East Asian studies. During his time at Yale, Presser earned the Richard U. Light Fellowship to study Chinese abroad in China. His interest in China began with Chinese movies, he said in an alumni interview in 2023 with the Los Angeles-based John Thomas Dye School, which he attended before Harvard-Westlake."
Adam Presser is assuming leadership of TikTok's newly created U.S. joint venture and must reassure Washington while retaining users. He served as chief of staff to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew from April 2022 to July 2023, then advanced to head of operations and head of operations and trust & safety. Presser is based in Los Angeles and faces a politically sensitive role in tech. His education includes Harvard-Westlake high school, an undergraduate degree in Chinese Language and an M.A. in East Asian studies from Yale, a Harvard MBA, and a Harvard law degree.
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