Yiming Zhang
Founder&CEO at Bytedance
📍 Beijing, China
Yiming Zhang is the founder of Bytedance, the tech giant behind TikTok. A software engineer by training from Nankai University, he built one of the worlds most valuable private companies by pioneering AI-driven content recommendation. He previously founded 99fang. com and held engineering roles at Microsoft and KuXun before starting Bytedance in 2012.
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19 Years
Current Role
Founder&CEO
Location
Beijing, China
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Priorities
Topics Yiming cares about
AI-driven Content
Built his company on the principle of using AI to personalize and distribute information, a concept that powers both TikTok and Toutiao.
Global Expansion
Unlike many Chinese tech founders who focused domestically, he envisioned a borderless company from the start, successfully launching products for international markets.
Career
Work history
3-2012
Founder&CEO
Bytedance
9-2009 - 3-2012
Founder & CEO
99fang.com
9-2008 - 9-2009
Architect
fanfou
4-2008 - 9-2008
Engineer
微软
3-2006 - 3-2008
Technical Lead
KuXun
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Education
2001 - 2005
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Nankai University
软件工程学院
Nankai University
Social presence
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