Net worth
$84B
Forbes Real-Time · as of Sep 24, 2026
Latest moves
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Recent SEC filings
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Footprint
Companies
ByteDance Ltd. (private; TikTok, Douyin, Doubao AI assistant, Lark)Main co-founder · ~21% · as of Sep 2026
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- Role
- Main co-founder; stepped down as CEO in 2021 and as chairman in Nov 2021
- Stake
- ~21% economic stake (Fortune); over 50% of voting rights (Reuters, Mar 2024)
- Stake as of
- 2026-09-17
Stakes
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC (US TikTok, CapCut and Lemon8 operations; CEO Adam Presser) — indirect via ByteDance. ByteDance holds 19.9%; Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX 15% each as managing investors; other investors include the Dell family office and affiliates of Susquehanna, General Atlantic and Dragoneer, plus Alpha Wave, Revolution and Xavier Niel's family officeindirect via ByteDance's 19.9% · as of Jan 2026
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ByteDance gave up control of TikTok's US business to a JV of mostly US investors including Oracle and Silver Lake…Jan 2026
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- In full
- ByteDance gave up control of TikTok's US business to a JV of mostly US investors including Oracle and Silver Lake (established Jan 22, 2026)
- Date
- 2026-01-22
New valuation marks from BlackRock and Fidelity lifted Zhang's net worth by ~$12B in September 2026; Fortune reported…Sep 2026
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- In full
- New valuation marks from BlackRock and Fidelity lifted Zhang's net worth by ~$12B in September 2026; Fortune reported he overtook Gautam Adani as Asia's richest person
- Date
- 2026-09
TikTok USDS JV established under the 2025-09-25 executive order. Its 7-member board includes Shou Chew, Egon Durban…Jan 2026
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- In full
- TikTok USDS JV established under the 2025-09-25 executive order. Its 7-member board includes Shou Chew, Egon Durban (Silver Lake), Kenneth Glueck (Oracle) and David Scott (MGX). US owners are to lease ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle will retrain
- Date
- 2026-01-22
Real estate
Singapore (listed residence)residence · as of 2026-09
source ↗Legal & regulatory
Reuters, citing the WSJ, reported the Trump administration was set to receive a ~$10B fee for brokering the TikTok…
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- In full
- Reuters, citing the WSJ, reported the Trump administration was set to receive a ~$10B fee for brokering the TikTok deal (headline seen via citation; Reuters blocked fetch)
Irish Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €530M (€485M for GDPR Art. 46(1) China data transfers, €45M for…
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- In full
- Irish Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €530M (€485M for GDPR Art. 46(1) China data transfers, €45M for transparency) and ordered compliance within 6 months or suspension of transfers to China (decision 2025-04-30, announced 2025-05-02)
DPC opened a new inquiry (July 2025) into TikTok's transfers of EEA users' personal data to servers in China
source ↗Giving
$10M commitment to the Gates Foundation's COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator (May 2020; older)
source ↗Research gaps: The published profile relied on Wikipedia for the TikTok USDS split and said ByteDance and affiliates keep 50%. The TikTok newsroom says ByteDance itself holds 19.9%; the ~50% figure seems to add in ByteDance's existing investors. The Wikipedia source is retracted and replaced. Still missing: Zhang's personal holding vehicles and ByteDance's 2026 buyback price. Only low-tier reports of a ~$550B valuation were seen, so it was left out.
What to watch
ByteDance valuation marks and employee buyback pricing (BlackRock/Fidelity marks drove Sept 2026 jump)
source ↗ByteDance AI push: Doubao assistant (345M MAU; China's top AI app in Q1 2026)
source ↗TikTok USDS JV governance, algorithm-lease and Oracle retraining; any change to ByteDance's 19.9% stake
source ↗Outcome of the DPC's second inquiry into TikTok's EEA-to-China data transfers
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