Jesse Tinsley, CEO of workforce management company Employer.com, made what might be the wildest acquisition of the year. First, Employer.com announced plans last month to acquire Bench, a Canadian accounting startup that suddenly shut down over the holidays. Now Tinsley and Employer.com have joined forces with YouTuber MrBeast and others to save TikTok by submitting an all-cash offer for the app, according to a report in Bloomberg. He has not disclosed the amount of the offer. The group’s legal counsel includes Brad Bondi, the younger brother of Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi. TikTok briefly went dark on Saturday, but returned shortly before President Trump signed an executive order on Monday, delaying the potential ban for 75 days. It is unclear whether TikTok owner ByteDance has considered the offer, Bloomberg reported. Others floated as potential buyers include Elon Musk, Amazon, Oracle, and a syndicate led by billionaire Frank McCourt.
MrBeast is reportedly now among those trying to buy TikTok
