Blue Whale TMT Channel, January 27, according to the Tianyan inspection, recently, Zhang Yiming withdrew from Beijing Word Jump Network Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing ByteDance Network Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Shibei Technology Co., Ltd. legal representative, as well as Beijing Shibei Technology Co., Ltd. manager, executive director position.
According to the news on May 19, 2021 on ByteDance's official website, Zhang Yiming, co-founder of ByteDance, said in an internal letter that it will switch to a new role at the end of 2021, focusing on long-term strategy, corporate culture and social responsibility. ByteDance co-founder and head of human resources Liang Rubo will take over as CEO.
Earlier, talking about the reasons for leaving office, Zhang Yiming said that although the company's business is developing well now, whether it can stay here for a longer time in the future, can it not only become a bigger business, but also become more creative and meaningful, and practice the mission of "inspiring creativity and enriching life". Therefore, Zhang Yiming decided to put aside the company's daily management, focus on long-term important matters such as long-term strategy, corporate culture and social responsibility, and plan to "focus relatively on learning knowledge, systematic thinking, researching new things, hands-on experimentation and experience, and create more possibilities for the company for a ten-year period."