| Preceded | Cicada Education |
| Aftermath | Musical.ly |
| Start Date | 2014-00-00 |
| Notes | Zhu thought about how he could combine these different features into a single social app for teens, and the idea for Musical.ly was born. The team behind Cicada turned Zhu's idea into an app in only 30 days, and in July 2014, launched Musical.ly for creating 15-second lip-syncing music videos. |