ZEEKR, a well-known domestic new energy vehicle brand, was officially listed on the New York stock market, with a current market value of 6.9 billion US dollars, which is about 50 billion yuan in people, which is not far from the market value of Xiaopeng.
ZEEKR is listed very fast, and it can even be called the fastest automotive technology company established to be listed, established in March 2021, and listed in 2024, only about 3 years, you must know that from the perspective of listing time, Tesla took 7 years, Xiaopeng 6 years, Ideal 5 years, and Weilai 4 years.
The boss behind ZEEKR is Geely Li Shufu, and this is also the 9th listed company that Li Shufu has gained.
The nine listed companies are: Geely Automobile, Volvo, Polestar Automobile, Lotus, ECARX, Qianjiang Motorcycle, Hanma Technology, Lifan Technology, and Zeekr.
Among these companies, many of them have been listed through mergers and acquisitions, shareholding, and internal incubation, and it can be said that Li Shufu is really a listing master, with 9 IPOs, and he is also the best in the automotive circle.
In fact, Li Shufu still has a company in the IPO, that is, Geely's online car-hailing platform - Cao Cao Travel, which is currently on the road to listing, maybe in the near future, Li Shufu will be called the "listing management master" of 10 IPOs.
Of course, Li Shufu is most talked about in 2010, spending $1.8 billion to buy Volvo, and obtained capabilities including factories, patent rights, a complete R&D system, parts supply chain, and a global sales and service network.
At that time, Geely was not as valuable as Volvo, but he insisted on "borrowing money to buy", made a big gamble, and realized "snake swallowing elephant", and the facts also proved that Li Shufu won the bet.
Relying on Volvo's brand effect and advanced technology, Geely has ushered in a golden decade of development, with a large improvement in the level of car manufacturing, car manufacturing grade, and brand image, and the newly developed Lynk & Co and Zeekr have become China's high-end car brands.
At the same time, through the acquisition of Volvo, Li Shufu also learned more capital operation, so over the years he has continued to "buy, buy, buy", such as the acquisition of Proton, Lotus, Daimler, the acquisition of the United States Taili Flying Cars, etc., but also a variety of capital operations, invested in Renault, Aston Martin and other enterprises, long-sleeved good dance, to create a huge territory of listed companies.
Through this wide layout, Geely's moat is getting wider and deeper, and at the same time, with the continuous listing of the company, external financing is also getting smoother and smoother, so Li Shufu and Geely can travel lightly to deal with the fierce competition in the market.
And in 2022, Li Shufu will cross the border, his subsidiary Interstellar Times acquired Meizu, and the two sides integrated a new company named Interstellar Meizu, and Li Shufu blended into the mobile phone industry.
And this is also in the new energy era, after the car has become a consumer electronic product, Li Shufu has done another layout, after all, the mobile phone giant is better at the system, software, user experience, demand grasp, etc., which is also not good at traditional car companies.
According to Hurun data in 2023, Li Shufu's net worth is as high as 175 billion, an increase of 40 billion yuan from the previous year, ranking 9th in China.