The Unlikely Rise of ByteDance and TikTok, Tiny Beijing Apartment to Global Domination

A company that was launched in a four bedroom Beijing apartment, where the entire team lived and worked. An idea that was rejected by many investors became one of the world’s most popular social media platforms.

Zhang Yiming was born in 1983 in Wenzhou, China, and grew up in a modest household. Despite financial constraints, Zhang excelled in his studies and earned a degree in computer science.