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Podcast: Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Episode: Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)
Description: Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok. Prior to TikTok, Ray spent six years at Google helping scale Google Shopping globally. In our conversation, we discuss:ā¢ TikTokās internal culture and core valuesā¢ How TikTokās product team operatesā¢ How working at TikTok is different from working at Googleā¢ How TikTok rolls out to new marketsā¢ TikTokās core principle of ācontext, not controlāā¢ How their sales and product teams work togetherā¢ Lessons (and mistakes) from building TikTokās e...