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  1. www.forbes.com › profile › zhang-yimingZhang Yiming - Forbes

    2 days ago · Zhang Yiming is the main founder of Chinese tech giant ByteDance, best known for its insanely popular app TikTok, which has more than 1 billion users worldwide.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Zhang_YimingZhang Yiming - Wikipedia

    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).

  3. www.forbes.com › sites › giacomotogniniMeet Zhang Yiming, The Chinese Billionaire Behind TikTok - Forbes

    Nov 4, 2019 · But Zhang Yiming, the billionaire founder behind TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, is far less famous than the video-sharing tool that’s become the most downloaded app in the world.

  4. www.scmp.com › tech › big-techWho Zhang Yiming is and how he grew ByteDance and TikTok into a...

    May 21, 2021 · Employees at Beijing-based ByteDance were taken by surprise on Thursday when Zhang Yiming, the soft-spoken founder of the world’s largest unicorn, announced he was giving up his role as chief...

  5. www.reuters.com › world › china‘I’m not very social’: ByteDance founder to hand CEO ... - ...

    May 20, 2021 · May 20 (Reuters) - Zhang Yiming announced he will step down as CEO of TikTok-owner ByteDance, saying he lacked the social skills to be an ideal manager and naming his college roommate...

  6. www.bloomberg.com › billionaires › profilesBloomberg Billionaires Index - Zhang Yiming

    3 days ago · Overview. Zhang is a co-founder of ByteDance, the social media group behind video-sharing app TikTok. The Beijing-based company also owns the news aggregation service Toutiao. ByteDance has more...

  7. www.nytimes.com › 2021/05/19 › technologyTikTok's Owner, ByteDance, Says C.E.O. Zhang Yiming Will Resign -...

    May 19, 2021 · Zhang Yiming, who helped found TikTok’s Chinese parent company and turn it into a globe-straddling internet giant, will step down as its chief executive at the end of the year to focus...

  8. fortune.com › 2021/05/20 › bytedance-ceo-zhang-yiming-resign-worlds-most-valuableZhang Yiming, CEO of world's most valuable startup Bytedance ......

    May 20, 2021 · Zhang Yiming, the 38-year-old founder and CEO of TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, announced plans on Wednesday to step down from his role as head of the roughly $400 billion tech...

  9. www.caixinglobal.com › 2021/10/20 › tiktok-co-founder-is-chinas-richest-internetTikTok Co-Founder Is China’s Richest Internet Tycoon, Forbes Says

    Oct 20, 2021 · What’s new: Zhang Yiming, co-founder of the company behind short-video sensation TikTok, has become the richest person in China’s internet industry for the first time, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaire ranking. Zhang, the 37-year-old co-founder of ByteDance Ltd., now has a net worth of $59.4 billion.

  10. www.ft.com › content › 2f7becaf-defe-457d-9191-1f87152bf618ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming steps down as chair of Chinese social...

    Nov 3, 2021 · ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming is stepping down as chair of the Chinese social media group he founded almost a decade ago, relinquishing his last formal executive position at the company behind TikTok.