Founding and leading ByteDance, creating Douyin/TikTok
Title
Founder & Chairman of ByteDance
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
张一鸣
Traditional Chinese
張一鳴
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhāng Yīmíng
Website
weibo.com/zhangyiming
Zhang Yiming (Chinese: 张一鸣; born April 1, 1983) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012, developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin (internationally known as TikTok). As of March 2024, Zhang's personal wealth was estimated at US$40.2 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index (US$43.4 billion, according to Forbes),[1] making him the second-richest person in China, after Zhong Shanshan.[2][3] On November 4, 2021, Zhang stepped down as CEO of ByteDance,[4] completing a leadership handover announced in May 2021.[5] According to Reuters, Zhang maintains over 50 percent of ByteDance's voting rights.[6]
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