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Early Life<\/h2>\n

Zhang Yiming was born in the city of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1976. He began his career in 1999 at a technology company based in Beijing. He soon became an entrepreneur, launching a series of successful businesses, including an advertising agency and a video sharing start-up. He has since built a strong reputation as one of China’s leading entrepreneurs, specializing in tech and internet-related businesses.<\/p>\n

Rise to Global Prominence<\/h2>\n

Zhang Yiming’s career took off in 2012 when his video sharing start-up, Toutiao, received a large infusion of venture capital financing, allowing him to scale the business spectacularly. The following year, Toutiao launched its monetization system and was listed as one of China’s top 10 internet companies. Zhang Yiming became one of China’s wealthiest individuals, with a net worth of approximately $8.3 billion as of 2021.<\/p>\n

Tik Tok Takes the World By Storm<\/h2>\n

In 2014, Zhang Yiming established ByteDance, a social networking tech startup that has since become one of the fastest-growing and most valuable companies in the world. Its most popular product, Tik Tok, is a short-form video-sharing platform that has become ubiquitous across the globe, with over 800 million monthly active users as of 2021.<\/p>\n

Digital Entertainment and News<\/h2>\n

ByteDance has since expanded into the digital entertainment and news space, launching Douyin (an entertainment-focused version of TikTok), Dou Tang (a music streaming service), and Toutiao (a news aggregator and content recommendation platform).<\/p>\n

Linking China and the World<\/h2>\n