Zhang Yiming, the co-founder of TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance, will step down as CEO, he announced Thursday as he admitted to lacking some of the skills necessary to lead the company ...

ByteDance co-founder Yiming Zhang has stepped down as the company’s chairman and left the board, according to a person close to the matter. Zhang, one of China’s most successful entrepreneurs ...

Zhang Yiming steered ByteDance to become China’s first truly globally successful internet company. By Raymond Zhong Zhang Yiming, who helped found TikTok’s Chinese parent company and turn it ...

TikTok’s wild popularity has helped Zhang Yiming, the 41-year-old cofounder of the social network’s parent company ByteDance, ...

Zhang Yiming has built a $57.5 billion fortune since cofounding ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok. Zhang is highly private and little is publicly known about his personal life.

Zhang Yiming, cofounder of Bytedance, seen at the 1st Digital China Summit in 2018 in Fuzhou. Zhang Yiming, cofounder of TikTok owner ByteDance, has overtaken beverage giant Nongfu Spring chairman ...

read more Zhang, who turned ByteDance into a social media force, said he was not in fact a social person. He blamed the day-to-day challenges of a CEO as being a hurdle to research and innovation ...

ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming has seen a surge of about $14 billion to his fortune since the beginning of 2025. On the other side, Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and Jeff Bezos ...

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has relinquished his seat as chair of the company's board. Zhang said he was stepping down as the CEO of ByteDance in May, as he's not an "ideal manager." ...

On Thursday Zhang Yiming made a key move to achieve that. Creating new leadership positions for ByteDance's China business, Zhang said in a letter to employees he would now focus on global ...

ByteDance Ltd. founder Zhang Yiming has stepped down as chairman of the Chinese tech giant, according to reports late Tuesday, months after resigning as CEO of the TikTok parent. CEO Liang Rubo ...