We often talk about Xiaomi, who is then the soul of this site and many others dealing with technology made in China but the company would not be what it is now that there was not a big businessman behind that he could transform its company in a value product of $ 46 billion, the fourth smartphone distributor worldwide and first in China after only 3 years from its foundation.
LEI JUN
She was born on December 16, 1969 in Xiantao, Hubei, China. He begins to take his first steps in the world of technology business poco after finishing college, he found work as an engineer at Kingsoft, a Chinese software company similar to Microsoft. In poco for some time he managed to make a career by becoming first technical chief and then president and managing director until 2007, the year in which he preferred to resign for personal reasons. During his time as CEO of Kingsoft, Lei Jun founded Joyo.com, an online bookstore, which was then sold to Amazon in 2004 for a value of $ 75 million.
In 2010, after spending three years in pursuit of a capitalist adventure, 6 April 2010, our business owner Lei Jun finally founds the Xiaomi company together with a former Google China executive. In the meantime, she continues to invest in other companies in the Chinese technology landscape and in 2011 she is part of the Kingsoft company as executive director, forging a partnership between the two companies as Kingsoft will provide cloud storage services to phones produced by Xiaomi.
Xiaomi's strength, often called the "Apple of China", is to invest in different phones than the smartphone, in fact, in April of 2015, Lei Jun invests much of the company's capital on more than 20 start- up with the investment project in other 100. This will help Xiaomi expand and expand exponentially by becoming the second most valuable private-tech company in the world.
Since 1987, when Lei Jun graduated computer science at Wuhan University, he did not miss personal and work recognition. Currently you are married and has two children, and during your career has been recognized by Forbes as a businessman of the year, it has often been compared to Steve Jobs and therefore criticized, but the truth of the his fortune lies behind being a generous and methodical leader who wholeheartedly believes in what he does, returning to his employees, investors and associates all the passion that they daily donate to the company.
All this has led to further corporate pride, in fact today the Ministry of Commerce for the Development of Foreign Trade has officially launched the work project for the "Made in China" brands, which will be recognized for their products and services at world-wide by strengthening China's reputation globally. Among the various ambassadors of the “Made in China” brand, the Xiaomi company led by Mr. Lei Jun was chosen for the technology and mobile telephony section. Through the microblogging site Weibo the good news was made official.
Surely Lei Jun is a great source of inspiration and energy for the Xiaomi company, but also for so many other competitors. Perhaps that is the only reason why you are often associated with Steve Jobs, another great innovator in technology history. Now am I just wondering something? How many Italian entrepreneurs could we associate with Lei Jun or Steve Jobs? If you think of it, do not hesitate to let us know in the comments box below.
