Before talking about Lei Jun’s founding of Xiaomi, let’s first read an interview with Shu Li Hu, editor-in-chief of Shu Li Time (Hu for short H, Lei Jun for short L). Lei Jun started his own business in college and failed because of his “recklessness”. He joined Kingsoft the year after graduation and worked his…
On November 4, 1991, Lei Jun met Bojun Qiu, the founder of Kingsoft, for the first time at a computer exhibition. Bojun Qiu was known as “China’s No. 1 programmer” because he developed WPS alone. Lei Jun regarded Bojun Qiu as an entrepreneurial idol, and also tried to decrypt WPS in 1990. Based on this…
In 1976, Lei Jun, who was about 7 years old, attended Zhaowan Elementary School in Zhaowan Village. The villagers recalled that Lei Jun loved to study very much when he was a child, and he read books during meals, and he even studied at home instead of going to watch movies in the village. To…
Lei Jun’s official introduction Lei Jun, born in December 1969, is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi Technology. In July 1991, he received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Wuhan University. As a renowned technology entrepreneur in China, Lei Jun joined Kingsoft Corporation Limited in 1992; in April 2015, he was named Chairman…