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Company · Media & Entertainment

ByteDance

Technology company behind TikTok, Douyin and Toutiao.

Private 🦄 Unicorn Founded 2012 Beijing China Media & Entertainment
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Founders

4
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Liang Rubo
Co-founder
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Rubo Liang
Co-founder
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Yiming Zhang
Co-founder
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Zhang Yiming
Co-founder & CEO

Where its founders came from

2

The companies and labs that produced ByteDance’s founders.

Microsoft Kuxun

Acquisitions

1
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