Zhang Yiming
Keynote Speaker: Founder & Former CEO of ByteDance
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Zhang Yiming is the founder and former chief executive of Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., one of China’s largest internet technology conglomerates. In March of 2021 Yiming transitioned at ByteDance to focus on long-term strategy, corporate culture and social responsibility in his position as chairman of the company’s board of directors and largest individual shareholder with 25%. The apps in ByteDance’s portfolio include Toutiao, a popular content platform in China and TikTok, the video-based social media app that became the most downloaded iOS app worldwide in the first quarter of 2019. Founded in 2012, ByteDance is valued at $75 billion and brings in around 1 billion monthly users globally — it is considered by some as the world’s most valuable start-up. In 2013, Yiming made the 2013 Forbes China 30 Under 30 List and in 2018 he was recognized as a Fortune 40 Under 40 honoree.
Yiming majored in microelectronics and software engineering at Nankai University and began his career working at the travel website Kuxun, later acquired by TripAdvisor. After a short stint at Microsoft, Yiming took to producing his own apps and founded several start-ups, including a real estate search portal. Eventually, Yiming focused his efforts on news aggregation apps in 2012 to compete with Baidu’s offering of news embedded with advertising.
He first launched the content platform Toutiao, an AI-based news recommendation engine that tailors news based on users’ interests without the help of editorial staff. As the app rapidly garnered downloads by the millions, Yiming partnered with Chinese smartphone manufacturers to embed it into new phone models. ByteDance later rolled out its short-video platform Douyin (known as TikTok in the US) in 2016 and acquired the popular US app Musical.ly for $1 billion to merge it with TikTok in 2018, successfully venturing into international markets.
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Zhang Yiming is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Computer Science, Business and Entrepreneurship. Please contact us for live or virtual event fee details. Zhang Yiming generally travels from Beijing, China and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ian Beacraft, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Anand Sanwal. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Zhang Yiming for an upcoming event.
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Meet Zhang Yiming, the secretive Chinese billionaire behind TikTok worth $44 billion who just stepped down as ByteDance CEO
The widespread popularity of TikTok has not just created a new generation of social media stars, it has also created a social media billionaire. Zhang Yiming, the 38-year-old software engineer who founded the app's parent company, ByteDance, now has a net worth of $44.5 billion, Bloomberg estimates.
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Who Zhang Yiming is and how he grew ByteDance and TikTok into a global sensation
Employees at Beijing-based ByteDance were taken by surprise on Thursday when Zhang Yiming, the soft-spoken founder of the world’s largest unicorn, announced he was giving up his role as chief executive to “be more impactful on longer-term initiatives”, less than one month after the company’s IPO plans were put on hold.
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The young CEO who helped make TikTok a global hit is latest Chinese tech entrepreneur to quit
Zhang Yiming built ByteDance into one of the biggest names in Chinese tech. Now he's stepping down as CEO at just 38 years old, becoming the latest young tech entrepreneur in China to quit while leading a company on the rise.
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Why China Cracked Down on the Social-Media Giant Bytedance
“We believe in technology,” Zhang Yiming, the C.E.O. of Bytedance, said last year. In 2012, Zhang founded Beijing Bytedance, one of China’s fastest-growing tech startups, which now has a valuation of more than twenty billion dollars and earns much of its revenue from advertising.
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