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20 May,
8 tweets, 3 min read
Liang Rubo and founder Zhang Yiming were dormitory roommates in university where they forged a deep friendship, studying, programming, and playing badminton together. When Yiming's dorm room PC was stolen, Rubo lent him money to buy a new one which they shared use of. 
Rubo has a solid engineering background, at one point he was technical director for ByteDance back when the company was known only for its newsfeed app Toutiao "Daily Headlines"
Rubo's GitHub page: github.com/liangrubo
Rubo's GitHub page: github.com/liangrubo
He worked with Yiming at several startups before ByteDance most notably real estate platform 99Fang where Yiming & Rubo learned how to build apps
1 of which was "Real Estate Information" which aggregated real estate articles. It was the direct predecessor of Toutiao
1 of which was "Real Estate Information" which aggregated real estate articles. It was the direct predecessor of Toutiao
Across all the research I did for the book, I found Rubo never stops smiling! In every video and picture the guy basically always looks really upbeat.
You can see what I mean in this video of Rubo and Yiming interacting.
You can see what I mean in this video of Rubo and Yiming interacting.
Interesting factoid: Douyin (TikTok China) was originally set up in 2016 under the legal entity, Beijing Weibo Vision Technology Co., Ltd., which was registered in Rubo's name, not Yiming's. I believe this is why he's often cited as "Douyin founder" in the Chinese press.
Here's Rubo in a company group photo taken in early 2014. What you see here was the entire company. Today it's 100,000+ people.
<shameless plug> Rubo is mentioned many times in my book. For the full story and much more check out my book Attention Factory: amazon.com/dp/B08L1578B6</shameless plug>
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