{"id":88906,"date":"2019-03-24T02:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T09:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-complex-fortune-growing-inside-worlds-most-valuable-startup"},"modified":"2019-03-24T02:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T09:02:34","slug":"the-complex-fortune-growing-inside-worlds-most-valuable-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-complex-fortune-growing-inside-worlds-most-valuable-startup","title":{"rendered":"The Complex Fortune Growing Inside World\u2019s Most Valuable Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-complex-fortune-growing-inside-worlds-most-valuable-startup2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Software engineer Zhang Yiming started out producing apps for sharing jokes before focusing on news aggregation. That pivot proved lucrative.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old founder of Bytedance Ltd. is worth about $13 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him China\u2019s 9th-richest person and one of the fastest in modern times to amass a mega-fortune. The business, founded in 2012, has more than 1 billion active monthly users across eight mobile apps, including a news aggregator powered by artificial intelligence and a video-sharing platform.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-24\/the-complex-fortune-growing-inside-world-s-most-valuable-startup\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019&#45;03&#45;24\/t...le-startup<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software engineer Zhang Yiming started out producing apps for sharing jokes before focusing on news aggregation. That pivot proved lucrative. The 35-year-old founder of Bytedance Ltd. is worth about $13 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him China\u2019s 9th-richest person and one of the fastest in modern times to amass a mega-fortune. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}