'i Am Open To Investing': Mark Cuban Announces Open Call For 'anyone' Who Can Build A Tiktok Alternative

Mark Cuban has been 1 of Bluesky's astir vocal supporters successful caller months. And now that nan Supreme Court has upheld nan TikTok ban, nan billionaire entrepreneur is looking for point new.

"I admit everyone reaching retired to maine to effort to recreation up pinch a TikTok replacement successful suit it closes," Cuban posted connected TikTok this week. "Here's what I'm unfastened to considering. There's an app called Bluesky and it's built connected a constituent called nan AT Protocol successful which you create your ain servers, create your ain apps, and it each connects together to nan 26 aliases 27 cardinal Bluesky users."

Bluesky is built connected nan AT Protocol, an open, decentralized web for building apps. The X alternative, which began arsenic an independent investigation task incorrect then-Twitter successful 2019, became its ain institution successful 2022. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was erstwhile connected nan board.

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Cuban said if personification tin build a TikTok replacement connected nan AT Protocol, they would personification an contiguous investor—himself.

"I would beryllium unfastened to investing and supporting anyone who creates a TikTok replacement built connected nan AT Protocol," Cuban continued. "So if you personification that ability, fto maine cognize successful nan comments."

@mcuban Let maine cognize successful nan comments ! https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto. #savetiktok #tiktok## outcry retired to @Austin ♬ original sound - Mark Cuban

Cuban asked consenting candidates to "create an MVP," if possible, "a minimum viable product" truthful that he has point to spot earlier investing.

"I deliberation you'd personification a afloat batch of support," he added. "And, erstwhile you build connected nan AT Protocol it's extensible, truthful that intends cipher tin bargain it cipher tin conscionable adjacent it."

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TikTokers flooded nan comments caller to return connected nan task.

"NASA package technologist here," wrote connected user. "If anyone wants to collab connected this task fto maine know!"

"I'm a full-stack developer, I'm consenting to activity pinch different devs to get this done!"

According to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, Mark Cuban is worthy conscionable awkward of $8 billion.