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,在字节跳动(ByteDance)和美国监管机构就TikTok在美国的命运进行谈判期间,红杉资本(Sequoia Capital)和泛大西洋投资集团(General Atlantic)占据了新闻头条,而KKR的亨利•克拉维斯(Henry Kravis)也没闲着。据两位知情人士透露,在幕后,KKR的这位联合首席执行官在试探性地致电字节跳动创始人张一鸣,看看自己的投资公司是否也能扮演一个角色。