Zhang, a software engineer who graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin, got his break in July 2012 when the company raised $5 million in its Series A financing round from billionaire investor ...

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—the co-founder of ByteDance ... western France shows a smartphone with the logo of Chinese social network Tik Tok. More Loic Venance/Getty The popularity of TikTok grew dramatically ...

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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 ...

Zhang Yiming has built a $44.5 billion fortune since cofounding ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok. Despite being one of the wealthiest people in China, Zhang is extremely private and ...

In 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 person. Zhang’s rise ...

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 ...

SHANGHAI — ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is China’s richest person, with personal wealth of $49.3 billion, an annual rich list showed Tuesday, although counterparts in real estate and ...

Zhang Yiming, the founder of TikTok's parent company ByteDance, is now the richest person in China, with a net worth of $57.5 billion. The 41-year-old software engineer's wealth rose by $13.6 year ...