TikTok vs. US filing: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming owns a 21% stake in TikTok's parent company, and is living in Singapore while keeping Chinese citizenship
- Zhang has a 21% stake in the world's most valuable startup — Chinese tech founders have built up a presence on the island
Unlike Alibaba, Tencent has so far avoided an antitrust crackdown in China, likely due to it investing in upstarts instead of driving them out of business
but not, at least for now, Tencent. https://www.nytimes.com/... @chinausfocus : “Tencent's popularity may help it avoid trouble with Beijing. But its vast power could still squelch innovation in the w...
How ByteDance tried to cross the US-China internet divide with TikTok, offering appeasements to both sides that were undermined by the geopolitical reality
The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, dreamed of building a global tech company based in China. Then the geopolitical reality set in. Tweets: @zhonggg and @ewong Tweets: Raymond Zhong / @zhonggg : ...
Profile of ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, his early decision to make TikTok an international platform, and how TikTok's fate rests on US-China relations
Zhang Yiming embodies what the United States wanted China to be. He is the founder and chief executive of a company, ByteDance …