Alex Zhu is the CEO of TikTok, the social platform who’s mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy through short-form videos. Previously, he was Co-founder & Co-CEO of musical.ly, a video social network that celebrates daily life with videos recorded in 15 seconds or less that was acquired by ByteDance, the parent company to TikTok, for $1 billion and eventually merged with TikTok given the shared mission of both experiences.

Previous to the international success of musical.ly, the “designtrepreneur” was a product designer and manager at SAP, the world’s largest enterprise software company, and also served as a creative director at Microsoft driving mobile disruption initiatives in the consumer space.

Zhu attended Zhejiang University, one of the most prestigious institutions in China and studied civil engineering.

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Yiming Zhang is the founder and CEO of ByteDance. Yiming holds a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Nankai University. Yiming has participated in or founded 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 a real estate search portal 99fang. Zhang was one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2019.