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Liang Rubo

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Co-founder and CEO at ByteDance

🇨🇳 Chinese

Liang co-founded ByteDance and helped build its earliest systems before taking responsibility for engineering, enterprise software and people operations. As CEO he oversees the parent company behind TikTok, Douyin and a growing family of generative-AI products.

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Background

Current role
Co-founder and CEO 2012-present
Previously
Co-founder,
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026