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TikTok founder's $60 billion fortune places him among the world's richest people
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LiveMint | 14/04/2021 09:23 AM | Click to read full article
38-year-old Zhang Yiming is among the world’s richest people -- a distinction that lately has carried increased risks in China.
Zhang, who owns about a quarter of ByteDance, could be worth more than $60 billion, placing him alongside Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Pony Ma, bottled-water king Zhong Shanshan and members of the Walton and Koch families in the U.S.