India, April 9 -- ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming has seen a surge of about $14 billion to his fortune since the beginning of 2025. On the other side, Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, have respectively seen $135 billion and $43 billion declines in their net worth so far this year,

Zhang's net worth has increased by 31% this year to $57.5 billion.

Zhang, the 41-year-old software engineer, has surpassed Tencent founder and CEO Pony Ma as the richest person in China. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Ma enjoys a net worth of $56.5 billion.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zhang has successfully become the richest person in China and the third-richest person in Asia, tr...