Who is behind the success of TikTok?
TikTok is one of the aplicaciones that has fastest reached the top of the most used popular networks in the world, and although it was banned in India, losing almost 200 million users, still in the top 10. Its success has even prompted popular media giant Instagram to launch Reels as an alternative to TikTok.
But despite the great popularity few people know who is the creator of this popular networkoriginally intended to share small music clips, but here we clarify these and other questions.
Who is the inventor of TikTok and which company is behind it?
As we have already said, TikTok has been programmed as a popular network where you perro share music clips. Douyin is the original name of TikTok in Chinato it means the vibration of the musicbut for commercial reasons the name was changed for the rest of the world.
This aplicación Yiming Zhang was created, a 39-year-old male with a bachelor’s degree in programa engineering from Nankai University. Zhang has founded several companies, including Kuxun, the most widely used travel and transportation search engine in China, and 99fang, a real estate portal. However, it was his success that earned him a place among the richest Chinese under 30 at the time Currently the ninth richest man in China ByteDance was there and he has a job as director ejecutivo.
Diversion It is a technology company whose main products include TikTok declinean artificial intelligence-based news service launched in 2012. Toutiao has more than 600 million users in China, despite the many criticisms of content censorship promoted by that country’s government.
ByteDance is that too Majority shareholder of Indonesian news aplicación BABE and creator Hihabitual Indian popular media platform.
This company is currently worth more than $100 billion and has often been compared to Google plus thanks to its large catalog of successful applications to which new ones are added every day.