How Charli D’Amelio Is Building a TikTok Empire

If the latest battle in the AI wars is between open-source models and closed ones, Meta CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg is right on the frontline. Since rebranding as Meta in 2021, the trillion dollar company formerly known as Facebook has been pouring billions into its long term bets on artificial intelligence and the Metaverse. Meta’s latest push is a major play to open-source AI, in contrast to closed-source competitors like Google and Open AI. In an exclusive interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang sits down with Zuckerberg to discuss how the company’s newest AI model Llama 3.1 will shape the future of business, technology and society. She also visits his retreat in Lake Tahoe and learns how to wakesurf with Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

YouTube is now the biggest streamer in the world, winning the battle for eyeballs against competitors like Netflix, Hulu, Disney and Max. Now, the entertainment giant is eyeing up its next frontier: the living room. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan sits down with Emily Chang to discuss the platform’s growth strategy, keeping the creator economy afloat and how it is cracking down on AI generated content.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ryan Kaji is the reigning king of toy videos and one of YouTube’s biggest and highest-paid social media stars. Now, at the tender age of 12, he's getting his first Hollywood movie, with his parents as co-stars. Behind the Kaji empire is Chris Williams, CEO of kids entertainment media company Pocket.Watch. On this Circuit podcast, Emily Chang sits down with Williams to discuss the kids entertainment landscape, how kid YouTubers are making a killing across YouTube, merchandising, and brand deals, and how AI will present new challenges and opportunities for young creators. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For years, a Hawaiian-shirt and flip-flop wearing, smack-talking entrepreneur has been promising to disrupt the US defense industry. Now, Palmer Luckey, founder of autonomous weapons startup Anduril Industries, isn’t just talking about it, he’s doing it. Emily Chang and Palmer Luckey sit down to discuss building Anduril, his relationship with Silicon Valley, how autonomous weapons are changing the battlefield in Ukraine, and culture clashes between Big Tech and the defense industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ahead of Google's developer conference I/O, Google & Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sits down with Bloomberg Originals Host & Executive Producer Emily Chang to discuss the future of search, accelerating work on Google's AI models and how his upbringing prepared him for this moment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mary Barra has an ambitious plan: to double General Motor’s revenue to $280 billion by the end of the decade and turn the legacy automaker into more of a tech company. To pull this off, she's going all in on electric drive and autonomous cars. At the ten year mark of her career as CEO, Emily Chang sits down with Barra to discuss her journey to the c-suite, her big plans for the future and what it'll take to turn them into a reality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the streaming wars hotter than ever, Netflix is doubling down on its global ambitions. It’s a strategy that’s already reshaping the entertainment world, with series like Squid Game and Narcos becoming smash hits far beyond their countries of origin. In an era when entertainment companies are scrambling for dwindling revenues and attention, the future of the industry could depend on reaching a truly worldwide audience. The question is, can Netflix do it, and stay the king of streaming? Emily Chang speaks with Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria about Netflix's ambitious bet in Latin America. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emily Chang interviews JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, a titan in the banking industry known for his freewheeling style, about his outlook on markets, tech and geopolitical risk. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The Circuit, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang meets with Bumble CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to talk about what it takes to truly create a safer space for women to date online. Wolfe Herd discusses what she learned from her experience at Tinder and how AI could usher in a new era for online dating. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The Circuit, Emily Chang heads to Los Angeles to meet one family that’s trying to turn TikTok fame into a business empire. Charli D’Amelio, one of the most-followed people on TikTok, and her parents Heidi and Marc discuss their expansion into television, investing and building their own brand. Chang gets a sneak peek at their new shoe line and sits down with Charli to talk about the struggles of fame on today’s internet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.