Liang Rubo (梁汝波) is CEO of ByteDance and a co-founder of the company. Reuters and ByteDance reported that co-founder Zhang Yiming stepped down as CEO in 2021 and handed the role to Liang, his college roommate, who had previously led human-resources and management functions.123
At a glance
- Current role
- CEO and co-founder
- Company
- ByteDance
- Fields
- Language models, Agents
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
ByteDance CEO
In May 2021 Zhang Yiming announced he would step down as ByteDance CEO; Liang Rubo became global CEO. Forbes and company materials describe Liang as a co-founder who worked with Zhang on earlier ventures before ByteDance's rise with Toutiao and TikTok/Douyin.12
Timeline
- Succeeded Zhang Yiming as ByteDance CEO.1
Where they work
- ByteDance 4 people in the wiki
Related people
- Quanquan GuAlso at ByteDance
- Zhu YiboAlso at ByteDance
- Peiyuan ZhangAlso at ByteDance
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- Leandro von WerraLanguage models · Agents
- Michele CatastaAgents · Language models
- Hanlin TangLanguage models · Agents
- May HabibLanguage models · Agents
- Babak HodjatAgents · Language models
- Gabe PereyraAgents · Language models
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026