Zhang Weiming, owner of Chinese giant 'Byte Dance' and Ticketcock, is a man who has tasted his own hard work and success on his own. Zhang, who lives in Beijing, China, has made his presence felt in the world through the video streaming app Ticketock. Tittock today has 500 million global monthly active users all over the world. According to Forbes, Zhang is the 9th richest person in China.
'Bite Dance' is a company owned by Ticketcock. Zhang holds an estimated 24% stake in BiteDance. Zhang, 35, founded Bite Dance in 2012. Since then, he is on the path of continuous growth. His company earned $ 12 billion in just 2018. Very few people are aware of the hard work behind this success. Today we are telling you about the life of Zhang Weiming and the whole journey of becoming a billionaire businessman.
Zhang was born in 1983 in Fujian Province, China. His mother was a civil servant. He completed his graduation in microelectronics from Nankai University in 2005. He then turned to software engineering.
According to a Bloomberg report, Zhang initially worked at a company named Xun after completing his studies. He was an ordinary engineer but in the second year of his job he got a chance to lead 40 to 50 employees in Bank & Technology. After taking over this team, he was instrumental in starting ByteDance.
According to Bloomberg, 'Zhang was hired for technology related services in this company, but whenever there were some problems in the products in the company, he would interfere in that too. During this, many people used to interrupt him for interfering in other department work.
In 2017, Zhang was renamed Tick Talk by purchasing the company named Musically for $ 1 billion. After this, Zhang is on the way to progress. Zhang's hard work is behind Tiktok's uncountable success. The company has earned $ 12 billion in 2018 alone. The popularity of 'Tick-Talk' grew very quickly in 2018 and in October 2018 it became the most downloaded app in the US.
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