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- September 17, 2026
The entrepreneur behind TikTok and Douyin is now the richest person in Asia—and AI is helping fuel his rise to the top. Zhang Yiming, the founder of TikTok parent company ByteDance, has just overtaken Indian tycoon Gautam Adani as the richest person in Asia, according to Bloomberg, who currently boasts a net worth of $104.8
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