{"id":9653,"date":"2021-05-20T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2021-05-20T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:00:23","slug":"who-zhang-yiming-is-and-how-he-grew-bytedance-and-tiktok-into-a-global-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9653","title":{"rendered":"Who Zhang Yiming is and how he grew ByteDance and TikTok into a global sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostEmployees at Beijing-based ByteDance were taken by surprise on Thursday when Zhang Yiming, the soft-spoken founder of the world\u2019s largest unicorn, announced he was giving up his role as chief executive to \u201cbe more impactful on longer-term initiatives\u201d, less than one month after the company\u2019s IPO plans were put on hold.The 38-year-old billionaire, estimated by Forbes to have a net worth of US$35.6 billion and now the third Big Tech founder in China to have taken a step back in recent times after\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3134264\/who-zhang-yiming-and-how-he-grew-bytedance-and-tiktok-global\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostEmployees at Beijing-based ByteDance were taken by surprise on Thursday when Zhang Yiming, the soft-spoken founder of the world\u2019s largest unicorn, announced he was giving up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}