3 INDEXED REFERENCES2024–20263 SHOWN FREE
The stated principles a founder or operator claims to run by.
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2026 · Investor/Pass Founder Ledger
Lei Jun — Founder Ledger Overview
Lei Jun — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: wuhan University computer-science graduate who joined Kingsoft as an engineer in 1992, later became its CEO, founded Xiaomi, and has since transformed it into a technology conglomerate spanning smartphones, electric vehicles, and chips. The profile is grounded in the 3 sources indexed for this founder.
2025 · South China Morning Post
Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun stays on as honorary chairman at Chinese software firm
Lei has driven Xiaomi's expansion beyond smartphones into electric vehicles and semiconductors, per SCMP's June 2025 characterization of him as 'transforming Xiaomi into a technology conglomerate.'.
2024 · Wikipedia
Lei Jun
In 2000 Lei founded online retailer joyo.com, which he sold to Amazon.com for $75 million in 2004; in 2005 he made a $1 million investment in YY that was later worth far more after the company's IPO.
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