TikTok CEO: You Need to Be Global and Local

gigantic: 거대한
prominent: 눈에 띄는
Most of the large Chinese technology, companies, let’s say Alibaba, Baidu, and Tecent, they have gigantic market values, and they’re very prominent in China.

by contrast: 반대로
TikTok, by contrast, is not in China, but it’s gigantic outside of China, in the United States, and everywhere.

challenging to build (something): (무언가를) 구축하기 어려운
We think it’s challenging to build a global company in general.

adapt: 적응하다
But the best ones we’ve seen so far are ones that take very consistent global learnings and adapt them to the local countries they are operating in.

for example: 예를 들어
at this point: 이 시점에서
For example, here in the US, we have a very sizable team here in New York and Austin, in LA at this point.