Zhang Yiming

“Xiang Liang (向亮) — ByteDance engineer who reportedly self-taught recommendation systems from a book he wrote himself”

“Zhang Yiming, in an internal meeting at Seed, mentioned that he does not allow ByteDance to do this distillation.”

“Zhang Yiming himself mentioned: if you go down the distillation path, at most you can continuously approach the other party — it is very difficult to achieve true surpassing.”

“Zhang Yiming believed from the start that a product's success is not any one person's success, but the company's success, the system's success. So at ByteDance you won't see a 'father of Douyin' or 'father of Toutiao.'”

“Wasn't Zhang Yiming's famous saying 'don't stare at your competitor while driving'? I think this is incorrect — or rather, you need to look at this in two phases.”