ByteDance

Culture

ByteStyle is fundamental to corporate culture at ByteDance and represents the principles we uphold as employees.

Aim for the Highest

Raise the bar. Wait for bigger gains. Find the best solutions by widening your perspective. Be attentive. Distill ideas down to their fundamental truths. Keep learning and growing.

Leadership

Yiming Zhang

Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board

Yiming Zhang is the founder and CEO of ByteDance. Yiming started several ventures prior to ByteDance, including Kuxun—then the dominant travel and transportation search engine in China, which was later acquired by TripAdvisor—as well as the real estate search portal 99fang. In 2019, Yiming was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine. He holds a B.A. in Software Engineering from Nankai University.

Arthur Dantchik

Board Director

William Ford

Board Director

Philippe Laffont

Board Director

Neil Shen

Board Director

Investors

In alphabetical order

Corporate Structure

For illustration purposes, this corporate chart only disclosed main operating entities of Bytedance Group as of June 30，2020

Offices

With products available in over 150 markets, we have offices in 126 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. As of November 2019, ByteDance has over 60,000 employees and 15 research and development centers around the globe.