{"id":1589,"date":"2021-05-21T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/bytedance-boss-exits-at-time-of-uncertainty-for-chinese-tech-firms\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:17:56","slug":"bytedance-boss-exits-at-time-of-uncertainty-for-chinese-tech-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/bytedance-boss-exits-at-time-of-uncertainty-for-chinese-tech-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bytedance boss exits at time of uncertainty for Chinese tech firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: political undercurrents cannot be ignored as Zhang Yiming stands down to \u2018daydream\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"%20six%20of%20the%20video-sharing%20app%E2%80%99s%20greatest%20hits\">TikTok: six of the video-sharing app\u2019s greatest hits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the latest retreat by a leading figure in China\u2019s booming tech sector, the chief executive of TikTok\u2019s parent company has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/bytedance-ceo-zhang-yiming-stands-aside-daydreaming-tiktok\">said he will step down<\/a> to focus on long-term strategy, saying he prefers \u201creading and daydreaming\u201d to the challenge of running a multinational firm.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Yiming, the 38-year-old boss of Bytedance, set out the reasons for the move in an unusually candid memo addressed to the company\u2019s staff. \u201cThe truth is, I lack some of the skills that make an ideal manager,\u201d he confessed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/bytedance-boss-zhang-yiming-departs-uncertainty-china-tech-firms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bda97b4f6227a15d5ae8083e9f6c7403cc987838\/312_642_2818_1691\/master\/2818.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4e498dd79901f3d23f7ced44aeddc9a6\" title=\"Bytedance boss exits at time of uncertainty for Chinese tech firms\" \/>Analysis: political undercurrents cannot be ignored as Zhang Yiming stands down to \u2018daydream\u2019<br \/>\nTikTok: six of the video-sharing app\u2019s greatest hits<br \/>\nIn the latest retreat by a leading figure in China\u2019s booming tech sector, the chief executive of TikTok\u2019s parent company has said he will step down to focus on long-term strategy, saying he prefers \u201creading and daydreaming\u201d to the challenge of running a multinational firm.<br \/>\nZhang Yiming, the 38-year-old boss of Bytedance, set out the reasons for the move in an unusually candid memo addressed to the company\u2019s staff. \u201cThe truth is, I lack some of the skills that make an ideal manager,\u201d he confessed. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: political undercurrents cannot be ignored as Zhang Yiming stands down to \u2018daydream\u2019 TikTok: six of the video-sharing app\u2019s greatest hits In the latest retreat by a leading figure in China\u2019s booming tech sector, the chief executive of TikTok\u2019s parent company has said he will step down to focus on long-term strategy, saying he prefers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/bytedance-boss-exits-at-time-of-uncertainty-for-chinese-tech-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bytedance boss exits at time of uncertainty for Chinese tech firms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}