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  1. 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 ).

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ByteDanceByteDance - Wikipedia

    ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. [7] Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok and Douyin.

  3. 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. Zhang stepped down as chairman...

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  4. 3 days ago · ByteDance was founded in 2012 by a development team led by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo. The duo were college roommates at Nankai University in Tianjin and started ByteDance in their shared apartment. Their goal as developers was to capitalize on the growing mobile Internet market with apps that could enrich their users’ lives.

  5. Mar 15, 2024 · In 2021, Zhang stepped down as ByteDance’s CEO and passed the reins to Liang Rubo, his co-founder and university roommate. At the time, he said he lacked the social skills to be an ideal...

  6. Feb 24, 2022 · Roger Chen is a professor of strategy and corporate innovation at the University of San Francisco and an adjunct professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He co-founded the...

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  8. 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.

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