Alex Zhu

Entrepreneur

Birth Year 1979

Birthplace China

#131,319 Most Popular

About

Entrepreneur and tech executive best known as the co-founder of Musical.ly, a Chinese video-sharing social media service that later became TikTok. Founded in 2014, Musical.ly became the number-one app in the iTunes store by July 2016 and was the first Chinese social media app to become popular in the United States. 

Before Fame

He studied civil engineering at Zhejiang University in eastern China, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in 2000. 

Trivia

Two years after graduating college, he was hired as the product design team leader at WebEx. In 2004, he left to work at the German software company SAP in Shanghai. 

Family Life

He was born and raised in the Anhui province of China. He has been married, but the details have been kept private. 

Associated With

Maddie Ziegler and Jacob Sartorius were popular stars on Musical.ly.