Zhang Yiming

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Zhang Yiming ( Chinese  張一鳴  /  张一鸣 , Pinyin Zhāng Yīmíng ; * April 1983, Longyan in Fujian , China ) is a Chinese IT entrepreneur in the Internet industry . He founded ByteDance in 2012 and developed the news aggregator Toutiao ( German  headline ) and the video platform TikTok . In May 2019 estimated Forbes his fortune to 16.2 billion US dollars .

Life

Zhang went to Nankai University in 2001 , where he studied microelectronics before moving to software engineering, and graduated in 2005.

In February 2006, Zhang became the fifth employee and first engineer on the Kuxun travel website and was promoted to technical director a year later.

In 2008, Zhang left Kuxun to work for Microsoft but felt hindered by the company's corporate rules. He soon left Microsoft to join the startup Fanfou , which, however, failed. When Kuxun was to be acquired by Expedia in 2009, Zhang took over Kuxun's property search business and started 99fang.com , his first own company.

In 2012 he left 99fang.com and founded ByteDance. At the end of 2018, the latter company had more than 1 billion monthly users on its various platforms and was valued at $ 75 billion.

In 2019, Zhang was one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time 100 . The laudation was written by computer scientist and former Google China boss Kai-Fu Lee .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zhang Jimin. Forbes , accessed March 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Venus Feng, Blake Schmidt: World's Most Valuable Startup Is Home to a Complex Fortune ( English ) In: Bloomberg . March 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ 深 扒 张一鸣 2285 条 微 博 挖出 今日 头条 崛起 的 秘密 - Dig deep into 2285 posts from Weibo - Find out the secret of the first headline ( Chinese ) In: Sohu . 19th October 2017.
  4. ↑ Tiktok parent company Bytedance: The most valuable start-up in the world that hardly anyone knows. Manager Magazin , accessed on May 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kai-Fu Lee: Zhang Yiming. In: Times 100 Leaders. Time , April 2019, accessed on September 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zhang, Yiming
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 张一鸣 (abbreviation); 張一鳴 (traditional character)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Fujian , China