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.

Zhang focused on expanding ByteDance globally, as opposed to other Chinese tech CEOs who focused on domestic growth of their companies. [13] He insisted that ByteDance's workplace productivity app Lark be targeted at the American, European and Japanese markets, rather than limiting the focus to China as originally proposed. [14]

北京字节跳动科技有限公司（英語： Beijing ByteDance Technology Company Limited ）或字节跳动有限公司（ ByteDance Limited. ），简称 字节跳动 （ ByteDance ），是一家位于 中國 北京 的 跨国 互联网技术公司 [ 2 ] ，成立于2012年3月。

2 天之前 · ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is the biggest wealth gainer on this year’s list. He climbed seven spots to No. 2 as his fortune more than doubled to $59.4 billion.

2019年11月4日 · The 35-year-old has experienced a stellar rise since founding ByteDance in 2012, which earned him a spot on the Forbes China 30 Under 30 list in 2013.

2025年1月20日 · 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.

ByteDance was founded in 2012 by a team led by Yiming Zhang and Rubo Liang, who saw opportunities in the then-nascent mobile internet market, and aspired to build platforms that could enrich people's lives.

2020年7月23日 · Often described in the media as ‘private’ and ‘secretive’, Zhang Yiming, the Founder and CEO of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, prefers to keep a low profile, despite the massive success of his ventures.

Zhang Yiming is Founder and CEO at ByteDance. Read about his journey, Net Worth, Career History, Education and family.

ByteDance Ltd. (Chinese: 字节跳动; pinyin: Zìjié Tiàodòng) is a Chinese Internet technology company headquartered in Beijing [1] [2] which owns Toutiao and TikTok. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012 and the shared ownership given to its employees.