ByteDance

Zijie Tiaodong
Zijie Tiaodong
Chinese	字节跳动
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zìjié Tiàodòng
Bopomofo	ㄗˋ ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄊㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄨㄥˋ
Wade–Giles	Tzu4-chieh2 T'iao4-tung4
Tongyong Pinyin	Zìh-jié Tiào-dòng
IPA	[tsɹ̩̂.tɕjě tʰjâʊ.tʊ̂ŋ]

ByteDance Ltd.
	AVIC Plaza, one of the office buildings of ByteDance in Beijing.
Native name	字节跳动有限公司
Company type	Private
Industry	Internet
Founded	13 March 2012
Founders	Zhang Yiming; Liang Rubo;
Headquarters	Haidian, Beijing, China (operational); Cayman Islands (legal);
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Zhang Yiming (Founder & Chairman); Liang Rubo (Founder & CEO); Erich Andersen (global GC); Kelly Zhang (CEO of ByteDance China); Lidong Zhang (Chairman of ByteDance China); Shou Zi Chew (CEO of TikTok);
Products	Toutiao; TikTok; TikTok Music; BuzzVideo; CapCut; Lark; Baike.com; PICO; Lemon8;
Revenue	US$85.2 billion (2022)
Operating income	US$2 billion (2022)
Number of employees	c. 150,000 (2023)
Subsidiaries	Moonton; Nuverse;
ASNs	396986, 138699
Website	bytedance.com

ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok and Douyin. The company is also the developer of the news platform Toutiao.

ByteDance has attracted legislative and media attention in several countries over security, surveillance, and censorship concerns.

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