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Hui Zuo

左晖

Hui Zuo (左晖) was the founder and chairman of Lianjia and later of KE Holdings (Beike), the real estate services platform he spun out of Lianjia's brokerage business . He was a fixture of Source Code Capital's annual Code Conference, where as Lianjia's chairman he argued that real estate was "one of the last industries in China still struggling to move online" because of the length of its transaction chain — the problem Beike's ACN (Agent Cooperation Network) was built to solve by redefining how agents across brands cooperate . When Beike went public in August 2020 — billed by Source Code Capital as China's "first listed residential services platform" — it had reached 103 cities with over 456,000 agents and 42,000 stores, and Zuo framed the strategy in a letter to shareholders as "doing the hard but right thing" with a management team averaging more than ten years at the company . He died in May 2021, mourned by Source Code Capital as "an entrepreneur who fought long and hard, pragmatic yet romantic" .

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