Liang Rubo
Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO, Bytedance
ByteDance's CEO roomed with founder Zhang Yiming at Nankai University and was the company's head of human resources when he was named CEO in 2021.
- Born
- 1983, Yichun, Jiangxi, China
- Now
- Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, ByteDance
- Studied
- Nankai University
Interesting facts
- Connection
Met ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming as a freshman roommate at Nankai University in 2001; the two shared a dorm and one desktop computer.
yespress.io - Side project
In 2012 he and Zhang ran a real estate app by day and built the news app Toutiao by night from a rented Beijing apartment.
kr-asia.com - Numbers
In a 2024 speech he scolded staff for only starting to talk about ChatGPT in 2023, and cited a task cut from 1,000 man-days to 15 after review.
fortune.com - In their words
Told staff in August 2026 that the gap between ByteDance's language models and leading overseas rivals was widening, a rare admission.
finance.biggo.com - Numbers
He and Zhang gave their old university 200 million yuan (about $28 million) in 2024 for math research.
scmp.com
Career
- ByteDanceCo-founder, Chairman and CEO2012 to now
- 99fang.comCo-founder, Technical Director2009–2012
- Accelicon TechnologiesPrincipal Engineer2005–2009
Education
- BS, Software engineering, Nankai University, 2005