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He had also, until March 2021, been a board member of Kingsoft Cloud, based out of the Chinese capital, which had one of its software applications blacklisted as a “national security” threat in...

Liang Rubo became the chief executive of ByteDance in 2021, taking the job from close friend, former roommate, and co-founder, Zhang Yiming. Until then, Liang had maintained a low profile, despite playing an essential role in building the social media giant.

March 23, 2023, 4:08 p.m. ET Lawmakers lambasted TikTok’s chief executive about the platform’s ties to China in a roughly five-hour hearing on Thursday, punctuating how the viral video app has...

March 24, 2023 1 Min Read Liang Rubo is a Chinese entrepreneur who has been successful in the technology industry. Liang has been with TikTok China since 2015 and was appointed as the CEO in 2019. Prior to joining TikTok, he worked for Baidu, China's largest search engine, for over a decade.

The 38-year-old will be succeeded by Liang, a long-time colleague and the current head of human resources at ByteDance, one of the world's biggest private tech companies with an estimated value...

Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing social networking services and apps TikTok and Chinese-specific counterpart Douyin. The company is also the developer of the news platform Toutiao. As of June 2021, ByteDance hosts 1.9 billion monthly active users across all of its platforms.

A former TikTok risk manager turned whistleblower has told congressional investigators that the Project Texas plan is deeply flawed. The former employee has shown the Washington Post a piece of...

Co-Founder / CEO. Liang has enjoyed massive success with video-sharing platform TikTok, which reigns as the world’s most popular app, but it has come with a cluster headache of issues.