Rubo Liang
梁汝波
Rubo Liang is the co-founder and CEO of ByteDance . He co-founded the company with Yiming Zhang and others in its early days , and as of 2026 remains in the CEO role . In a 2021 speech at Source Code Capital's annual entrepreneur meeting, he described the challenge of keeping a 100,000-person organization agile across 200-plus cities, emphasizing resistance to "organizational gravity" toward excessive rules and instead prioritizing cultural alignment, tool-based management, and manager accountability . The talk built on Zhang's earlier articulation of "Context, not Control" as ByteDance's management philosophy .elsewhere's corpus does not cover his background prior to ByteDance or personal biography in depth.
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Liang Rubo: How Does a 100,000-Person Organization Stay Agile? | 2021 Ma Hui Entrepreneurs' Annual Meeting
The management system avoids a one-size-fits-all approach, staying flexible and adaptable rather than rigid.
