{"id":1036164,"date":"2026-09-17T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036164"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:19:58","slug":"tiktok-founder-zhang-yiming-overtakes-gautam-adani-as-asias-richest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/tiktok-founder-zhang-yiming-overtakes-gautam-adani-as-asias-richest\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok founder Zhang Yiming overtakes Gautam Adani as Asia\u2019s richest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has overtaken Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to become Asia\u2019s richest person, with his fortune rising above $105 billion as the artificial intelligence boom drives a new wave of wealth creation, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Zhang, 43, has seen his wealth rise more than eightfold from the $13 billion Bloomberg recorded in March 2019. His fortune jumped by more than $12 billion this month after the news agency analysed updated valuations reported by investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has overtaken Indian billionaire Gautam Adani to become Asia\u2019s richest person, with his fortune rising above $105 billion as the artificial intelligence boom drives a new wave of wealth creation, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Zhang, 43, has seen his wealth rise more than eightfold from the $13 billion Bloomberg recorded in March 2019. His fortune jumped by more than $12 billion this month after the news agency analysed updated valuations reported by investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036187,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036164\/revisions\/1036187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}