June 1988, graduated from Zhengzhou No.9 Middle School.
1992 graduated from the Computer Department of Xi Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree. Because of his excellent academic performance, he was sent to the Department of Systems Engineering, School of Management, Xi Jiaotong University for postgraduate study, and graduated with a master's degree in 1995.
Since 1995, Zhou has worked for Founder Group, successively as a programmer, project director, department manager and general manager of the business department, and was promoted from an ordinary programmer to deputy director of the center and general manager of the business department.
1998 10 In order to realize the ideal of "enabling China people to surf the Internet in their mother tongue", 28-year-old Zhou Honghui founded Beijing 3721 Technology Co., Ltd. (the name of 372 1 comes from "37265438"), and in the same year, he launched 372 1 "Network Real Name". And on 1999, the Chinese Internet service in real-name registration system was officially provided. The website real-name service brought by "Chinese keyword search" technology covered more than 90% Internet users in China at that time, with daily usage exceeding 80 million and corporate customers exceeding 600,000, accounting for 40% of the paid search market in China and occupying an absolute leading position. 200 1 company 372 1 takes the lead in publishing profits among domestic internet companies. June 5438+October 2004 10, Yahoo acquired Hong Kong 372 1 company with a capital of10.2 billion US dollars.
In June 2003, Yahoo announced the acquisition of 372 1 company (substantial capital contribution was completed in the first quarter of 2004).
In March 2004, Zhou Honghui became the president of Yahoo China, and was fully responsible for the strategy formulation and implementation of Yahoo and 372 1 Company. During Zhou Honghui's tenure, Yahoo China launched a number of Internet services such as "One Search Network" and 1G free email.
In August 2005, Zhou retired after eight months in charge of Yahoo China/KLOC-0.
After Zhou left Yahoo China, he became an angel investor. Mr. Zhou formally joined (International Data Group Venture Capital Fund) as an investment partner, helping many small and medium-sized enterprises in China to gain opportunities for rapid development and promoting the development of the whole industry. I have invested in entrepreneurial projects of many startup companies, and the main investment results are Thunder and Discuz! Many well-known internet products, such as cool dogs.
As an angel investor, Zhou set up an angel investment fund to help more innovative enterprises get development opportunities.
In August 2006, Zhou Honghui invested in Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd. and became the chairman of Qihoo 360. Since then, through free business model and product technology innovation, it has subverted the traditional concept of Internet security, changed the market structure, and rapidly grown into the largest Internet security service provider in China. One of Qihoo's most important products is 360 security guards.
20 1 1 On March 30th, Zhou led Qihoo 360 to be listed on the NYSE. On the opening day, its stock opened at $27, rising to $34.40 and closing at $34, which was 134% higher than the pricing of $65,438+$04.5. Based on the opening price on the day of listing, Zhou's worth is $580 million.
On September 27th, 2065438+00, 360, headed by Zhou, launched a privacy protector, claiming that QQ was spying on users' privacy, and then launched a buttoned bodyguard to block QQ pop-ups and advertisements. There was a software dispute between 360 and Tencent, which was called "3Q" incident.
2010165438+10.021,Tencent and 360 both issued apology statements. Tencent said that it apologized to all users who were troubled by the incident, and 360 also apologized to users, and said that the software of Tencent and 360 was completely compatible with the website.
20 13 12 19 The Haidian District People's Court of Beijing made a judgment on the case of Baidu Company v. Zhou and Qihoo Company infringing on the right of reputation and the case of Tan infringing on the right of reputation, and sentenced Zhou, Tan and Qihoo 360 to lose the case, demanding that Zhou and Qihoo 360 delete Weibo's infringement and apologize 10 day. In addition, Tan is required to delete the infringing Weibo, make an apology 10 days, and pay a fine of 30,000 yuan.
20 14 On February 24th, the Supreme People's Court made a final judgment on the case of unfair competition between Tencent and Qihoo 360: Qihoo 360' s appeal was rejected, and the judgment of the court of first instance of Guangdong Higher People's Court was upheld, and Qihoo 360 compensated Tencent for its economic loss of 5 million yuan.
201412,360 invested USD 409.5 million to establish a joint venture with coolpad. According to sources, Zhou, the chairman of 360, will be the CEO of the joint venture company, and the chairman of Coolpad Group will be the chairman. This is consistent with the message delivered at the last seminar.
2065438+March 15, 360 Company confirmed that Zhou is the CEO and chairman of the joint venture between Coolpad and 360, and Zhou will be based in Shenzhen in the future.
20 15 12 16, attending the opening ceremony of the second world internet conference.
20 16 65438+ 10/0/5, Chairman and CEO Zhou of 360 Company was elected as the third chairman of Beijing Intellectual Property Protection Association.