El fundador de TikTok se convierte en la mayor fortuna de Asia
Zhang Yiming, fundador de la tecnológica china ByteDance, matriz de la popular plataforma de vídeos cortos TikTok, se ha convertido en la mayor fortuna de Asia tras desbancar al magnate indio Gautam Adani, según la lista de multimillonarios que elabora Bloomberg. Leer
Zhang Yiming, founder of Chinese tech company ByteDance and the parent company of TikTok, has become the wealthiest person in Asia, surpassing Indian billionaire Gautam Adani according to Bloomberg's list of billionaires. At 43 years old, Zhang's estimated fortune is $105.5 billion, eight times his wealth in early 2019 when Bloomberg began tracking his rise.
Zhang already held the title of wealthiest person in China due to the platform's international success and its domestic counterpart Douyin, as well as ByteDance's investments in artificial intelligence through applications such as the chatbot Doubao AI and video generator Seedance. Bloomberg attributes Zhang's rise to the AI boom, noting that he has outpaced billionaires whose fortunes come from more traditional sectors like Adani, Mukesh Ambani, and Tadashi Yanai.
The company's success, including ByteDance's potential to move into the metaverse, occurred amidst a complex geopolitical landscape, including threats of a U.S. ban on TikTok that forced the company to sell its U.S. operations to local investors.
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