While Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic were dominating the headlines this summer during talks between ByteDance and US regulators over the fate of TikTok in the country, KKR’s Henry Kravis was making discreet calls. Behind the scenes, the group’s co-chief executive was sounding out Zhang Yiming, the Chinese group’s founder, to see whether his investment firm also had a role to play, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
今年夏天,在字節跳動(ByteDance)和美國監管機構就TikTok在美國的命運進行談判期間,紅杉資本(Sequoia Capital)和泛大西洋投資集團(General Atlantic)占據了新聞頭條,而KKR的亨利?克拉維斯(Henry Kravis)也沒閑著。據兩位知情人士透露,在幕后,KKR的這位聯合首席執行官在試探性地致電字節跳動創始人張一鳴,看看自己的投資公司是否也能扮演一個角色。