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by ahbyb 2424 days ago
Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang don't sound very Californian to me.
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Neither do German (What you Americans call Jewish) or Russian/Ukrainian names sound English yet they are by far the biggest majority of your country way ahead of the Anglos. More likely than not a European American has its roots somewhere in Central or Eastern Europe.
Really? As both a SoCal and Bay Area resident name alone would tell me absolutely nothing about whether someone was a native to either area.
Their public LinkedIn profiles say that they went to university in China. They're Chinese.
Probably true. Of course, them being Chinese has nothing to do with where the startup was founded.
That's true, of course. However, every source I can find says that the company was founded in Shanghai, but ended up being more successful in the American than the Chinese market, and opened up offices in California. Most of the engineers are supposedly in Shanghai, though. One more detail is that the founders appear to have worked in Silicon Valley before founding the company.

Whether any of this makes any difference, as far as US law goes, I don't know.

1. https://www.businessinsider.de/what-is-musically-2016-5

2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bytedance-musically/china...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTyg2E44pBA