Zhang Yiming
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Zhang Yiming is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur and the founder of ByteDance. He founded the company in 2012 and developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video-sharing platform Douyin. Zhang stepped down as CEO of ByteDance on 4 November 2021, completing a leadership handover announced earlier that year, and Reuters has reported that he maintains over 50 percent of ByteDance’s voting rights. He is known for founding ByteDance and for the global rise of TikTok, which Wikipedia says helped make him the richest man in China in 2024.
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