Lei Jun
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Lei Jun is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi, the smart hardware and consumer electronics company he launched in 2010 after recruiting a team of 14 co-founders from Google, Microsoft, and Motorola . He kept his involvement secret for the first 18 months, telling the team "this is my last startup—if it succeeds, I'll settle down; if not, I'll retire from the industry" . The company name came not from strategic planning but from a co-founder's father cooking millet porridge for the founding group .
Before Xiaomi, Lei Jun had already built a career as a serial entrepreneur and investor. He became chairman of Kingsoft and co-founded or backed companies including YY, UCWeb, and Lakala through his long-running investment partnership with Liu Qin of Morningside Venture Capital . A 5Y Capital tribute described him as "an incurable idealist" whose mission evolved from "carrying the banner of national software" at Kingsoft to democratizing technology access globally through Xiaomi .
In 2024 he announced Xiaomi Auto as what he called his final major entrepreneurial project , and as of 2025 he remained actively ranked among China's top tech CEOs and robotics industry leaders .
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