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Zhang Yiming, the 40-year-old Fujian province native who founded ByteDance in a Beijing residential flat 12 years ago, is one of the most successful entrepreneurs the world has seen in the last decade, on a par with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman.
The billionaire founder behind TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, is far less famous than the video-sharing tool that’s become the most downloaded app in the world. TikTok may have achieved worldwide success, but not many people outside of China are aware of the man behind the app. How did a locally-trained software engineer outsmart the numerous news portals and video apps by the likes of Tencent Holdings and Sina Corporation?
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