Yiming Zhang

Yiming Zhang is the founder of ByteDance and, as of October 2024, China's richest person with a net worth of 350 billion yuan — the first self-made "post-80s" billionaire to top the Hurun Rich List in its 25-year history . In 2018, at age 35, he already topped a list of 36 founders compiled by 暗涌Waves, with ByteDance then valued at $75 billion; the same list noted Yang Meng's Anker Innovations and Xiaohongshu, then at 50 million users . Elsewhere in the corpus, Li Guangmi of Shixiang Technology judged that Zhang's "information acquisition and judgment capabilities" surpass most professional investors in China, quipping that were Zhang to run a family office, his hired fund managers would likely still end up heavily weighting ByteDance . The bundle does not cover Zhang's educational background, hometown, or the precise founding year of ByteDance.