Zhou Hongyi is the founder of 360, and he is engaged in finance while engaging in security software, and finance is more profitable than engaging in security software.
Of course, now Zhou Hongyi is no longer satisfied with being a business, but also began to be keen to be an Internet celebrity, he is now very popular on the Internet, with many fans, especially in recent times, some of his views on the automotive industry have attracted a lot of attention, especially his sale of second-hand cars, which has whetted the appetite of the majority of netizens.
Some time ago, Zhou Hongyi announced that he was going to sell the Maybach 600 he had driven for 9 years, and was ready to buy a domestic new energy vehicle to experience the rise of Chinese automobiles.
According to the appraisal price, Zhou Hongyi's Maybach can only be sold for between 900,000 and 1 million, but at the auction on April 28, Zhou Hongyi's second-hand Maybach, which has been open for 9 years, was sold at a high price of 9.9 million!
Other people's cars are depreciating more and more when they drive, but Zhou Hongyi's cars are more and more valuable!
At present, the market price of the new Maybach S600 is about 2.88 million, and the landing price is more than 3 million points, and a second-hand one of Zhou Hongyi can be sold for 9.9 million, which is more than three times the price of a new car.
So why is Zhou Hongyi's second-hand car so expensive? Is it because he is a celebrity and he has ridden in this car, so many people want to rub his taste?
Of course not!
The most fundamental reason is that Zhou Hongyi attached some conditions while selling this car.
The first condition is that all the money he proceeds from the auction of this car will be donated to the Wang Xuan Fund for charity, and it is jointly donated in the name of himself and the car buyer, which means that the money from the car buyer is not to buy a car, but to charity.
The second condition is that the person who auctions Zhou Hongyi's second-hand car will have the opportunity to have dinner with Zhou Hongyi once a year in the next three years, which is what really attracts everyone.
So instead of spending 9.9 million yuan on Zhou Hongyi's second-hand car, it is better to auction off his three dinners.
Among the 9.9 million, the value of the second-hand car itself is only about 900,000, and the remaining 9 million is the price of dinner, which is as high as 3 million for each lunch.
This price is very expensive, no wonder many netizens call Zhou Hongyi "China's Buffett", with this attempt, we do not rule out that Zhou Hongyi may take his lunch or dinner out for auction in the future, and interested people can have dinner or lunch with him, and then donate the money to charity, just like Buffett did.
As we all know, Buffy is a world-renowned stock god, and since 2000, he has launched a charity lunch, and those who successfully auction lunch can have the opportunity to share lunch with Buffy.
From 2000 to 2022, Buffett's charity lunch has been held in a total of 23 rounds, of which the lowest winning bid was $18,000 in 2001, the highest was the last auction in 2022, which was as high as $19 million, and in other years, the price reached more than one million dollars, equivalent to more than 7 million yuan.
Among the 23 charity lunches, most of the successful bidders were entrepreneurs or celebrities, including three Chinese, and these three Chinese developed quite well after having lunch with Buffett.
In 2006, Duan Yongping, the founder of BBK, photographed Warren Buffett's charity lunch for $620,000, and after having lunch with him, Duan Yongping also learned the essence of investment, and has successfully invested in many companies over the years. At that time, there was a young man named Huang Zheng who had lunch with Duan Yongping, and he later became the founder of Pinduoduo.
In 2008, Zhao Danyang, known as China's "godfather of private equity", successfully auctioned Buffett's charity lunch at a price of 2.11 million US dollars.
In 2015, Zhu Ye auctioned Buffett's lunch for $2.34 million, and this lunch opportunity made his Tianjin Entertainment's stock price soar by more than 90%, making a lot of money in the short term, but without the support of fundamentals, after December 2015, the stock price of Tianjin Entertainment plummeted rapidly.
Judging from the development trajectory of the three Chinese who had lunch with Buffett, Zhao Dan and Zhu Ye have tasted the sweetness in the short term, while Duan Yongping has learned the essence of investment and truly achieved value investment.
It can be seen that although lunch with Buffy is expensive, there are still a lot of things that can be learned.
Although Zhou Hongyi's influence cannot be compared with Buffett, as a veteran who has been in the Internet field for more than 20 years, as a wealthy man, his connections, his insight into the industry, and his insights on entrepreneurship still have a lot of value.
After the second-hand car dealer in Beijing spent 9.9 million yuan to auction his second-hand car, he will have the opportunity to have lunch with Zhou Hongyi in the next three years, which will learn a lot from Zhou Hongyi.
The key is that Zhou Hongyi's own exposure is relatively large, and Beijing, a second-hand car dealer, is also exposed, which is helpful for driving the growth of short-term performance, so the 9.9 million is still worth it.