Ran Koller made his first career tournament victory a memorable one as it came with a World Series of Poker bracelet. The native of Israel took down the massive 2,778-entry field in the $800 no-limit hold’em deepstack event. He defeated fellow Israeli Ran Ilani heads-up to earn $269,478, by far the largest score of his career. Ilani took home $$166,552 for his runner-up finish. “It’s amazing,” Koller told WSOP live reporters after his victory. “I do not even have words for it. It was surreal.” Along with the six-figure score, Koller earned 600 points in the Card Player Player of the Year race, which puts him in the top 500 for the title. Despite the deepstack title, it only took about four hours for Koller to finish off the other seven players at the final table. When the final nine players combined at the unofficial final table, Koller was near the bottom of the counts with 18 big blinds, while everyone was chasing Ilani, who started nine-handed play with 48 blinds of his
The 38-year-old AI coding genius, searching for ByteDance’s next big act, has set his sights on China’s $1.7 trillion e-commerce arena. The co-founder has hired thousands of staff and roped in big-name sponsors like Xiaomi Corp. impresario Lei Jun to drive what he calls his next “major breakthrough” into global business selling stuff to consumers via its addictive short videos and livestreams. That endeavor will test not just Zhang’s magic touch with app creation and ByteDance’s AI wizardry, but also investor reception ahead of one of the tech world’s most hotly anticipated IPOs.
His startup is already starting to make waves in an industry long controlled by Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. It sold about $26 billion worth of make-up, clothing and other merchandise in 2020, achieving in its maiden year what Alibaba’s Taobao took six years to accomplish. It’s shooting for more than $185 billion by 2022. Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese twin, is ex
Zhang Yiming-ek ByteDance Ltd. it was built by the world’s most valuable private company through a chain of blockbuster apps like TikTok, which challenged Facebook and other actors on their field. His ultimate goal: Alibaba.
The 38-year-old AI coding genius, looking for ByteDance’s next big action, has put his focus on China’s $ 1.7 trillion in e-commerce. The co-founder has hired thousands of employees and Xiaomi Corp. he has roped in among the company’s big sponsors like entrepreneur Lei Jun in what he calls his next “major breakthrough” to focus on global business – selling things to consumers through his short videos and addictive fun. This effort will test not only Zhang’s magical touch, but also its application creation and ByteDance’s AI witchcraft, as well as one of the world’s most anticipated IPOs for reception technology.
ByteDance hires staff in thousands to challenge e-commerce giant Alibaba
The company sold about $26 billion worth of make-up, clothing and other merchandise in 2020
Zhang Yiming built ByteDance Ltdas world’s most valuable private company via a string of blockbuster apps like TikTok that challenged Facebook and other incumbents on their own turf. His latest target now is Alibaba.
The 38-year-old AI coding genius, searching for ByteDance’s next big act, has set his sights on China’s $1.7 trillion e-commerce arena. The co-founder has hired thousands of staff and roped in big-name sponsors like Xiaomi Corp. impresario Lei Jun to drive what he calls his next “major breakthrough” into global business selling stuff to consumers via its addictive short videos and livestreams. That endeavour will test not just Zhang’s magic touch with app creation and ByteDance’s AI wizardry, but also investor reception ahead of one of the tech world’s most hotly anticipated IPOs.
Zhang Yiming built ByteDance Ltd. into the world’s most valuable private company via a string of blockbuster apps like TikTok that challenged Facebook and other incumbents on their own turf. His latest target: Alibaba.
The 38-year-old AI coding genius, searching for ByteDance’s next big act, has set his sights on China’s $1.7 trillion e-commerce arena. The co-founder has hired thousands of staff and roped in big-name sponsors like Xiaomi Corp. impresario Lei Jun to drive what he calls his next “major breakthrough” into global business selling stuff to consumers via its addictive short videos and livestreams. That endeavor will test not just Zhang’s magic touch with app creation and ByteDance’s AI wizardry, but also investor reception ahead of one of the tech world’s most hotly anticipated IPOs.