# Professor Anindya Ghose examines how the TikTok app's ban in India will impact its growth trajectory

1 Faculty News April 16, 2019 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](https://qz.com/india/1597347/tiktok-app-download-not-available-on-android-apple-in-india/) -- "'If any action is taken it would be a major blow to TikTok’s growth because of the 188 million new users that it gained last quarter, the largest growth came from India, which had 88.6 million new users,' said [Anindya Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose), the Heinz Riehl professor of business at New York University’s Stern School."

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