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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 ).
Zhang Yiming is the billionaire founder of ByteDance, the parent company behind TikTok. He's now China's richest man.
Chew was born on 1 January 1983 in Singapore. [4] His father reportedly worked in construction and his mother in bookkeeping. [5] Upon graduating from Hwa Chong Institution, [5] Chew went on to serve National Service in the Singapore Armed Forces.
In 2009, software engineer and entrepreneur Zhang Yiming collaborated with his friend Liang Rubo to co-found 99fang.com, a real estate search engine. [11] In early 2012, the pair rented an apartment in Zhongguancun and, along with several other 99fang employees, began developing an app that would use big data algorithms to classify news according to users' preferences, which would later become ...
5./15 WEST/istockphotoIn a remarkable shift atop China’s wealth rankings, Zhang Yiming — the visionary behind ByteDance and the massively popular TikTok app — is now the country’s richest ...
Zhang Yiming founded TikTok in 2012. He has become an unqualified success in the business world. The 38-year-old former software engineer is now worth over $49.5 billion, according to Forbes ...
Zhang was born on 14 November 1950 in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province. Zhang's father, Zhang Bingjun (张秉钧), a dermatologist, had been an officer in the National Revolutionary Army under Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War; an uncle and an elder brother had followed the Nationalist forces to Taiwan after
ByteDance was founded in 2012 in Beijing by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo, who were college roommates at Tianjin’s Nankai University, according to company information and Zhang’s public speeches.