Before, had a high-profile claim that he absolutely does not look at the meta-universe Zhou Hongyi, now by their own face.

Recently, Zhou Hongyi launched a meta-universe products, but also the value of ten million "n.cn" domain name as the official website.

This "red godfather" gourd in the end to sell what medicine?

However, this is also in line with his style, which is not the norm.

In the Internet business world, he is definitely a different kind of person, and his mouth has offended a lot of people.

3 years of war with Ma Huateng, and twenty years of fighting with Robin Li and Lei Jun.

At the same time Liu Qiangdong, Ali Ma Yun did not escape his poisonous mouth.

By "his own mouth" offended the Internet bigwigs, he is really the first person, since then labeled as "militant".

When it comes to his name, you have to talk about his clothes first.

As long as he attended public occasions, he always like to wear a red shirt, known as the "red godfather", attracted a lot of conjecture and inquiry.

For this reason, he has more than once to the outside world to explain the reason:

"I grew up with the name of the old people called wrong, it is just red is the harmonic of their own names, can play a role in prompting."

In one of the interviews, the host asked him what he was going to do if someone suddenly rushed onto the stage during the speech and splashed him with water.

Zhou Hongyi directly said that others do not have the opportunity to get close, if someone has to come forward, it will be directly pressed down or kicked to the ground.

I have to say, this answer is very Zhou Hongyi, resolute and blunt without leaving any room.

In the field of business, he reigned supreme, the same does not give others the opportunity to occupy their own territory.

In the Internet this big lake, Zhou Hongyi was like a warrior, full of aggression.

Even if you are surrounded by enemies, you have to go forward, to conquer, and arrive at your own territory.

From the initial "net poison" maker to the later free antivirus software promoter, in the past entrepreneurial road, Zhou Hongyi always out of the ordinary.

To understand his unique entrepreneurial journey, take a look at what he once said:

"Life is an entrepreneurial venture that requires disruptive innovation. We need to disrupt ourselves, reject mediocrity, and break through class solidification."

He is the subversive in the field of the Internet, the courage to break, the courage to new life, and continue to break out from the thorny forest of business, stepping out of a unique entrepreneurial road of his own.

In 1970, Zhou Hongyi was born in Henan, proper 70, childhood life is quite happy.

Both parents work in the Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, life is guaranteed, food and clothing.

But usually parents work busy, no time to take care of their son, Zhou Hongyi has been in the state of being released.

The only thing they ask of him is to study hard and stay out of trouble, and then everything will be fine.

On the point of studying well, Zhou Hongyi accomplished well.

The first grade of elementary school, Zhou Hongyi has been able to complete the third grade paper, literacy and reading ability is far ahead of his peers.

Although his studies were good, he was not considered a good student, and was even named among the "bear children".

Because apart from his studies, he was really bad at everything else.

Talking in class and making small movements;

Drawing a pig's head on the textbook for the teacher;

Stealing and breaking the teacher's whip;

Being punished for standing up and making faces at the class;

Often disrupting the classroom,

The teacher was so angry that he roared.

Getting along with your classmates, you can start a fight at the drop of a hat, and you'll always find your skinny ass in the school's gang fights.

"When I was a kid, I liked to fight with people, always fight not win, but determined to fight with people."

Every time after the fight, either tearing the clothes of classmates, or ripping each other's schoolbag.

He was in a good mood after the fight, but his mother had to help him "wipe his ass".

The mother needs to work overtime to mend the clothes of her classmates, repair their bags, and apologize to them.

She was both angry and helpless at her son's behavior.

Once, Zhou won an essay contest, the prize is a gray schoolbag.

But when he came home with the bag, his mother's face turned pale when she saw it, thinking he had scratched someone's bag again.

Luckily, his mouth was one step ahead of his mother's stick, and he explained clearly to her, otherwise he would have gotten a beating.

It can be said that when he was a child, he was simply a troublemaker, so that parents and teachers could not save heart.

Later recalled, Zhou Hongyi also said that he has never been a clever person, do not know how to please teachers and leaders.

Nonetheless, his behavior was a bit rebellious and alternative, and he was not a real "scum".

His academic performance has always been good, and his hands-on skills are also very strong, and he has also developed a very good reading habit.

At a very young age, he was able to make his own toys.

A metal insert, through his hands, immediately turned into a car, house.

For reading, Zhou is more than happy.

At a young age, he read a lot of Chinese and foreign classics, including the four great masterpieces.

It is also precisely because of the reading that he accidentally found his own interest in life.

When he was in junior high school, his father's company began to introduce computer management, and the family began to have books on computer programming.

So, close to the water, Zhou often looked at the introduction of computer programming books.

Although he could not quite figure out what the book meant, he became more and more interested in computers.

When he found out that the Children's Computer Journal was launched in 1985, he asked his family to order a copy.

Every time he received a copy, he was fascinated by the world of computers.

Goethe said that ambition and love are the wings of great deeds.

After finding what he really loved, Zhou established the direction of his efforts early.

In a high school class meeting on ideals, Zhou Hongyi made it clear that the computer industry is the cause of his life to engage in:

"I'm going to be a computer software developer in my life, to make a product that will change the world."

Mischievous love of picking fights, love of reading, in the eyes of others a world of difference in the evaluation, but in Zhou Hongyi a person's body perfect combination.

Teenagers can know what they want to do with their lives, really few, Zhou Hongyi is undoubtedly lucky.

The love of computers made him clear about his mission in the world before he became an adult.

The next thing to do is to go all out to make the ideal shine into reality.

When 16-year-old Zhou Hongyi first touched a computer in a computer class, the inner ecstasy could be imagined.

The whole class on the computer, he did not listen to the teacher's explanation.

Instead, he focused on typing in the program he had written earlier, and was even carried out by the teacher after class.

After school, he would seize every opportunity to practice the program he had written.

The more he invested in computers, the more he longed for the world.

Before the college entrance exams came, he made up his mind that he wanted to study computer science in college.

In order to be guaranteed admission to a prestigious university to study his favorite profession, Zhou even gave up the opportunity to travel with his family during the summer vacation, and stayed at home for two months to prepare for the physics competition exam.

However, he did not get what he wanted, and he lost his guaranteed spot.

Zhou Hongyi immediately fell into self-doubt, all day depressed.

Later, the teacher could not stand it, and helped him write a letter of recommendation to the university.

The South China Institute of Technology sent him an admission notice at the first time, and his parents were very happy to know.

But the Department of Food Industry was not his favorite, and he couldn't accept the offer.

Fortunately, fate opened another window for him, and Xi'an Jiaotong University then offered him an olive branch, specializing in computer science, which he wanted.

This time he did not hesitate, but chose to firmly grasp.

He just entered the university, still do not change his nature, in a fight, almost expelled from school not to say, but also robbed all the savings.

Because he didn't dare to talk to his parents, he started to think of his own ways to earn money.

He sold reference books for the college entrance exams, and soon earned his money back by relying on his articulate mouth.

After selling the books, he took advantage of his professionalism to do business with computers and made a lot of money.

He tasted sweetness in two small businesses, and his interest and confidence in business became stronger.

In his third year of college, he read "Silicon Valley Fever" on the train, which strengthened his determination to start a computer company.

In the era when computers were not yet popular, Zhou often took the risk of skipping class to go to the school computer room to rub the machine in order to figure out computer programs.

On one occasion, he broke into the school's computer system, paralyzing the computers in the entire computing center.

Terrified, he took the initiative to find a teacher to confess, and as he was a first-time offender, the teacher did not make it difficult for him, but just let him write a written statement on the end.

After that little "hacker" experience, he must not have thought that one day he would become the defender of Internet security.

From college to graduate school, he never let up on his passion for computer knowledge, nor did he give up on his entrepreneurial practices in this area.

When he wanted to do something, he dove in.

Not long after he was sent to graduate school to study management, he decided to make an anti-virus card that could remove computer viruses.

The ideal is very rich, the reality is very bone, in the lack of computer hardware support, the development of anti-virus card road is not so easy.

He could only continue to seize every opportunity to rub the school's computers and conduct product testing in the dark.

He called himself a "computer nut" during that time.

The anti-virus card was finally developed and won second prize in a competition.

Since then, his first official business venture opened.

However, in the absence of sufficient market experience, it is undoubtedly more difficult to start a business to promote their own anti-drug card.

But the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, he has knocked on the door of Rising Star, Lenovo, the result is no success.

He was forced to embark on the road of recruiting agents to sell.

As a result, because of cost constraints and the inability to do product upgrades in a timely manner, the user experience is not good, which ultimately led to his anti-virus card business project aborted.

But he tasted the taste of failure, entrepreneurial dreams have not been extinguished.

After constant reflection, he soon embarked on a second venture to sell graphic design systems.

In order to prepare for the founding of the start-up capital, Zhou Hongyi did not hesitate to sell the 250 motorcycle won in a creative competition.

However, in this venture, Zhou Hongyi east a hammer west a hammer, and soon the savings spent, but also because of the huge debt.

Two successive failures of entrepreneurship, he will be more or less disheartened.

The second failure was the year he graduated with his master's degree.

The reality of the brutal beatings, so that he has more fear of the world, and ultimately decided to go back to school to write a thesis to get a diploma.

On the second day of 1995, he returned to school early after a year of wandering around, and wrote a mistake check to his mentor.

The mentor did not criticize him for his lawlessness and play "disappearance", but only in front of the class, said a meaningful words:

"Among you people, Zhou may be the most promising in the future.

He thinks differently from normal people, and in the future, he will either be the one who fails the most, or he will be a big success."

Looking back at this statement now, one has to admire the mentor's insight.

Mentor's tolerance, but also to the 25-year-old in the entrepreneurial trough of his great encouragement.

Back to school to prepare for graduation, Zhou Hongyi a little more peaceful, a focus on thesis writing, and eventually passed graduation.

After graduating with a master's degree, his entrepreneurial spirit remained intact, but this time he was not impulsive and chose to save the country.

In the second half of 1995, when faced with the choice of studying for a doctorate and a high-paying job in a bank, he resolutely chose to go to Founder to be a bottom programmer.

In the opinion of Zhou Hongyi at the time, the work is not why, it is to learn entrepreneurship.

During the Founder's work, he mastered the programming of large servers, laying the foundation for his next venture again.

Learning achievement run, when Zhou Hongyi realized that he could no longer learn new things, that is, he left the opportunity to start a business.

At that time, China's Internet was booming, and there were a lot of opportunities.

Zhou Hongyi, who resigned from Founder, already had his own entrepreneurial direction.

This venture he is no longer alone, with a piece of resignation with his colleagues.

Five people in the suburbs of Beijing in the residential house created 3721 software, and then launched the 3721 Chinese Web site.

However, the project still encountered financial difficulties in the operation process, and had to seek venture capital.

After the money was in place, the software continued to expand in size, the number of users increased dramatically, and Zhou Hongyi and his team also successively gained greater benefits.

In order to obtain greater profits, save the cost of publicity, Zhou began to make plug-ins to promote their software.

It is also because of this initiative, attracted the industry to follow suit, the user is y tied to the pain of plug-ins.

Zhou Hongyi also backed by the "father of rogue software" infamy, questioned by the media and the user's accusations, 3721's reputation has been greatly reduced.

On the one hand, the rapid development of the Internet, the more intense competition in the environment;

On the other hand, the reputation of 3721 damage to the development of the dilemma of the limitations, so that Zhou had to consider cooperation.

After a lot of running around, not only did not find a suitable partner, but also let him into a new dispute, and competitors to fight the lawsuit.

Cooperation is not eaten lawsuits, Zhou Hongyi after some deep thought decided to sell 3721, Yahoo became the final choice.

During his tenure, Zhou once created the most beautiful results ever.

But in Yahoo, it is always a fence, many ideas simply can not be carried out, only to choose to leave.

In March 2006, Zhou created Qihoo.

Back to the Internet, he has broken through the original self, to an industry disruptor image active.

Zhou Hongyi, "the father of the rogue software support", even made a special uninstallation of rogue software software, and still free.

The birth of free software, all of a sudden in the Internet industry stirred up a thousand waves.

Zhou Hongyi has also become a thorn in the side of antivirus software entrepreneurs, a time to be rounded up to fight.

In the face of all aspects of the declaration of war, Zhou Hongyi did not retreat, but continue to focus on doing free antivirus software promotion.

Won the recognition of users, market share began to climb.

Among the various battles he experienced, the battle with Ma Huateng can be said to be thrilling.

Ma Huateng's new software, a serious encroachment on Zhou Hongyi's territory.

He couldn't sit still, and began to fight back strongly, publicly calling out Ma Huateng and launching a privacy protector.

Round after round of non-nitrous war between the two continue to fight, the situation is getting tense, and even forced Zhou Hongyi had to temporarily escape from Hong Kong.

The conflict intensified, which led to the Chinese Internet's "choose one" event, users can only choose one.

The battle lasted 3 years and eventually came to an end, no one became a real winner, but promoted the two companies to do further reflection and correction.

However, walked a Ma Huateng, followed by Lei Jun, Zhou Hongyi coped with Ma Huateng, turned around and Lei Jun bar.

Two people in the smartphone fight, but also did not fight the results, and then in the field of new energy vehicles narrowly met.

In the experience of a battle, Zhou Hongyi more and more mature, he always put the interests of the user first as their development concept.

"All user interests are higher than the interests of the company, to win the user, the company has value."

This sentence is what he has exchanged with his many entrepreneurial experiences, and is the weight of his great success.

Over the years, in addition to leading the guarding of the territory of Internet security, Zhou Hongyi did not slacken in other areas of the open field.

In May 2015, Zhou Hongyi entered the financial.

In May 2021, it was announced that the joint Nezha Automobile car manufacturing.

In October 2021, entered the live broadcast platform ......

Until now, Zhou Hongyi still never stopped, and constantly go to the layout of new areas, boldly go to the innovation business model.

During this period, he was also constantly questioned. Take the investment in the car, some people say he just want to continue to compete with Lei Jun.

On this point, he has also revealed to the outside world his cross-border car-making intentions:

"I entered this field, from a huge impulse.

It's because I firmly believe that the combination of the Internet and traditional industries can represent the second half of the Internet ......"

In front of the huge opportunity that can change China's future, he is not willing to be mediocre will never stand idly by.

Because in his entrepreneurial creed, only to continue to subvert, can be called entrepreneurial life.

But compared to the previous "a word on the fight", now Zhou Hongyi has become a lot more calm.

It's rare to see him fight with his peers again, but he puts more energy into the fight against foreign viruses.

Recently, Zhou Hongyi actively contributed to the proposal, calling on the state to upgrade network security to digital security, to create an emergency prevention system covering digital security.

He is also actively accelerating the layout to fight the hard battle of digital security.

From software security to hardware security, and then from online security to offline security.

From intelligent hardware to artificial big data, every scene can not be missed.

In the era of complex international situations and frequent overseas cyber attacks, Zhou Hongyi would be a beautiful thing if he could guard the last line of security.

Mr. Wan Wanguang said in his book "Intellectuals":

"The so-called heroes are those who transcend the class origin, transcend the surrounding environment, and transcend the limitations of character.

People who refuse to follow any set program, who can't be predicted by big data, who can surprise the world, and who are least like robots."

At last year's Internet Security Conference, Zhou Hongyi even proposed a future development strategy to build a national-scale distributed security brain.

That is to say, in the future in the country he has only friends, no competitive rivals.

In the business world to fight in the decades, Zhou Hongyi is such a maverick existence, always out of the ordinary, often hit peers caught off guard.

Some people say that he is the hero of entrepreneurship, always defending the interests of users;

Some people also say that he is arrogant and selfish, and chasing fame and fortune at all costs. From the beginning of the business field to the present, the controversy about him has never ceased.

Regardless of the conclusion, there is only one criterion, and that is to win users.

At present, Zhou Hongyi has hundreds of millions of users in the country, worth 122.3 billion, can not be said to be unsuccessful.

And the business saga about Zhou Hongyi continues to be written ......

By Zhu Xiaochang & Huazi