Did you know that at 38 years old, Zhang Yiming is the 39th richest man in the world and his parents were civil servants. The popularity of TikTok in the United States has raised concerns from US regulators.
Zhang Yiming is the founder and CEO of ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok. He lives a very secret lifestyle and focused on micro electronics and software engineering.
ByteDance has two main flagship products – Toutiao, an AI-backed news aggregator and TikTok which he founded later after the success of Toutiao