ZHANG YIMING

His clever algorithms—which analyse relevance, timing, current news and personal interest— mean the search engine Zhang founded in 2012, Jinri Toutiao, delivers news content tailored to the user. No two Toutiao.com search pages are the same. IT’S HOT It took just 90 days for Toutiao to gain more than 10 million users—which explains why Zhang was named one of China’s “30 Under 30” entrepreneurs in 2013.