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. CNN values your feedback 1.

Zhang Yimin, co-founder of ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, announced Wednesday that he was stepping down as CEO. A picture taken on January 21, 2021 in Nantes, western France shows a ...

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.

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is now China's richest man. Visual China Group via Getty Images; Ruobing Su/Business Insider Updated 2025-03-27T03:21:26Z ...

Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, but previously served as the CEO of 99Fang, a Chinese home finder startup with “very powerful” tech for search, image processing ...

As the court weighs a ban on the video-sharing app in the U.S., no one has more to lose than Zhang Yiming. Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance Imaginechina Limited/Alamy ...

Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance and China’s richest man, has not obtained Singaporean citizenship, according to a statement from Douyin, the Chinese sister app of TikTok. Douyin said it ...

Zhang Yiming is China’s richest person, with personal wealth of $49.3 billion, an annual rich list showed, while the number of billionaires is down one-third from 2021. IE 11 is not supported.