Meet Zhang Yiming, the extremely private billionaire behind TikTok who is now China's richest person

From visionary to billionaire: ByteDance boss Zhang Yiming overtakes everyone – and shows that China's richest man today thinks globally.

The huge popularity that TikTok has enjoyed in recent years has not only created a new generation of social media stars, but also the rise of tech entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, a discreet billionaire who has...

Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, owner of TikTok, has for the first time become the richest person in China.Zhang topped the list on Wednesday, surpassing the bottled water tycoon Zhong Shanshan and the co-founder of Tencent Holdings, Ma Huateng, with a fortune of 57.5 billion dollars.The technological tycoon rose with the first place after Zhong's fortune was diminished by a slowdown in profits in his company Nongfu Spring Co. Zhang now stan…

Meet Zhang Yiming, the extremely private billionaire behind TikTok who is now China's richest person

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is now China's richest man.Visual China Group via Getty Images; Ruobing Su/Business InsiderZhang 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.He recently became the richest person in China. Here's a look at his career and life.The widespread popularity of TikTok has created not o…

TikTok-ის დამფუძნებელი ჭანგ იიმინგი ჩინეთის უმდიდრესი ადამიანი გახდა • Forbes Georgia

ჩინური ტექნოლოგიური გიგანტის, ByteDance-ის დამფუძნებელი ჭანგ იიმინგი ჩინეთის უმდიდრესი ადამიანი გახდა. ამერიკული Forbes-ის მონაცემებით, იიმინგის ქონება $65.5 მილიარდად ფასდება, რის შედეგადაც ის რეიტინგის მეორე ადგილზე მყოფ Nongfu Spring-ის დამფუძნებელ ჭონგ შანშანს ($54.1 მილიარდი) $10 მილიარდზე მეტით უსწრებს. ByteDance-ი პოპულარული პლატფორმის, TikTok-ის მშობელი კომპანიაა. რაც შეეხება ჭანგს, მილიარდერმა ByteDance-ი 2012 წელს, პეკინში დააარსა. თუმ…

TikTok/Douyin Founder Zhang Yiming becomes richest person in China

On 27 March, the research group Hurun released its Global Rich List for 2025. The latest list witnessed the change of guards of the richest person in China. Zhong Shanshan (钟睒睒), the “bottled water tycoon”, founder and chairman of Nongfu Springs (农夫山泉), occupied the top seat for years. This year, he was dethroned by none other than Zhang Yiming (张一鸣), founder and former CEO of ByteDance, the parent group of short-form video platforms Douyin and …