Yonghao Luo

Yonghao Luo (罗永浩) is a serial entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Smartisan (锤子科技), a Chinese smartphone and software company he ran for six years through 2018 . In a 2018 talk at FreeS Fund's CEO annual meeting, he described his time there as filled with "tragedies" and hard-won lessons, including advice from Xiaomi's Lei Jun on partnership negotiations . After Smartisan, he pivoted to live e-commerce in 2020, where his streams became a notable sales channel for brands like Xinliangji's crayfish pre-made meals . He later founded Thin Red Line (细红线科技) in June 2022 as his AI venture . More recently, he launched a podcast named "Crossing" (十字路口), which sparked a naming dispute with the tech podcast of the same name; the original Crossing podcast stated that Luo declined their requests to change his show's name . elsewheres corpus does not cover his early career as an English teacher or his work in education training.