After graduating from college, Lei Jun began to set foot in the computer market. 1992, lei jun and his colleagues co-authored the book deep DOS programming. In the next two years, Lei Jun dabbled in a wide range, writing encryption software, antivirus software, financial software, CAD software, Chinese system and various practical gadgets. And cooperated with Wang Quanguo to design and weld circuit boards, and even worked as a hacker for a period of time to decrypt all kinds of software. In the past two years, Lei Jun and the bosses of various computer companies have become acquaintances and become very famous figures in Wuhan Electronic Street. Influenced by the entrepreneurial story of Fire in Silicon Valley, Lei Jun started to establish Tricolor Company with his classmates Wang Quanguo and Li Ruxiong in the fourth year of college.
At that time, the products were imitations of Kingsoft Hanka, but later, a bigger company appeared and pirated their products, which could make similar products in larger quantities and at lower prices.
Three-color companies are struggling, not to mention the company's operation, even life is facing a situation of waiting for food. After half a year, Sancai Company decided to dissolve. When checking the company's assets, Lei Jun and Wang Quanguo were assigned a 286 computer and printer, and Li Ruxiong was assigned a 386 computer.
During his work in Tricolor Company, Lei Jun and Wang Quanguo worked together to compile Lei Jun's first official work, BITLOK encryption software, and set up the Yellow Rose Group. In addition, Immune 90 was written in PASCAL and won the first prize of scientific and technological achievements of college students in Hubei Province. At the beginning of 1992, Lei Jun joined Jinshan Company. He has served as manager of Beijing Development Department of Jinshan Company, deputy general manager of Zhuhai Company and general manager of Beijing Jinshan Software Company.
1August, 1998, General Manager of Jinshan Company; At the end of 2000, after the reorganization of the shareholding system of Jinshan Company, he became the president of Beijing Jinshan Software Co., Ltd.
Lei Jun entered Jinshan at the age of 22 and worked until he was 38. He worked in Jinshan for 16 years, during which he completed the IPO listing of Jinshan.
On the afternoon of February 20, 2007, Lei Jun resigned as CEO of Jinshan.
On 20 1 1 July11day, the nomination committee of Jinshan Software Board nominated Lei Jun as the chairman. This proposal was unanimously adopted by the board of directors, and Lei Jun officially took over Jinshan Software. As an angel investor, Lei Jun has invested in many enterprises, including more than 20 innovative enterprises such as Joyo.com, Xiaoyao.com, Shangpin.com, Lexun Community, UC Youshi, Multi-Alliance Game Network (Happy Age), Lacarra, Vanke Eslite, Letao, Keniu, Good Doctor, Great Wall Club, and established the Angel Investment Fund Shunwei Fund.
20 14 12, the news of lei jun investment 1 100 million yuan YOU+ international youth apartment went viral in various channels. However, Xu Dalai, CEO of Shunwei Fund, clearly responded that the investment in YOU+ by Shunwei Fund is entirely from a financial point of view and has nothing to do with Xiaomi. 20 10 In April, Lei Jun co-founded Xiaomi Technology with Lin Bin, former vice president of Google China Engineering Research Institute (who participated in the establishment of Microsoft Asia Engineering Institute and served as engineering director), Zhou Guangping, former senior director of Motorola Beijing R&D Center (who presided over the design of Ming series mobile phones), Liu De, former head of industrial design department of University of Science and Technology Beijing, Li Wanqiang, former general manager of Kingsoft PowerWord, KK Wong, former development director of Microsoft China Engineering Institute, and Hongfeng, former senior product manager of Google China.
Today, Xiaomi Company owns many digital products and accessories such as Xiaomi mobile phone, Xiaomi 1S, Xiaomi 2, Xiaomi 2S, Xiaomi 2A, Red Rice mobile phone, Red Rice Note, Xiaomi box, Xiaomi 3, Xiaomi TV, Xiaomi TV 2, Xiaomi tablet, Xiaomi router, Xiaomi mobile power supply, Xiaomi portable wifi, and Xiaomi key.
As of August 20 13, the latest round of financing, Xiaomi's valuation exceeded10 billion US dollars. According to this calculation, Xiaomi Technology will become the fourth largest Internet company in China after Ali, Tencent and Baidu. In today's China hardware companies, second only to Lenovo.
Beijing Xiaomi Payment Technology Co., Ltd. was established on February 26th, 20 13 with a registered capital of 50 million yuan. The legal representative and chairman of the company is Lei Jun. In 20 13, Lei Jun was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress of People's Republic of China (PRC), and expressed the hope to promote certain reform and adjustment of the company law during his five-year term to make it more in line with international standards. In fact, Lei Jun is also a veteran of participating in and discussing state affairs. Two-time member of CPPCC in Haidian District, 20 12 was elected as the representative of Beijing Municipal People's Congress. Participate in the first world internet conference.
2014165438+1On October 20th, Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Technology, gave a surprising speech. He said that although Xiaomi was founded only four and a half years ago, it will lead Xiaomi to become the world's first smartphone company within five years to 10.
2065438+In March 2005, the National People's Congress submitted "Suggestions on Continuing to Amend the Company Law to Improve the Entrepreneurship Environment".
20 16 On March 5th, the Fourth Session of the 12th National People's Congress opened in Beijing. Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Technology, said: "Patents are the rules of the game in the whole mobile phone industry, and Xiaomi will handle patent infringement according to the rules of the market game." 20 14, 14 On the morning of February 4th, the website of Forbes magazine announced that Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi Technology, was elected as the business person of Forbes Asia in 20 14.
Forbes magazine said that under the leadership of Lei Jun, Xiaomi swept the Asian market with cheap smartphones and promoted the trend of producing powerful electronic devices at affordable prices around the world to cover a wide range of people.
According to the data released by market research institute IDC, Xiaomi's global smartphone market share jumped to the third place in the third quarter of this year, second only to Samsung and Apple; In China, Xiaomi has surpassed Apple in share and is the largest smartphone manufacturer. Xiaomi plans to sell 60 million mobile phones this year, twice as much as 20 13.
The 45-year-old Lei Jun ranked eighth on Forbes China Rich List with a net worth of $9.9 billion. It is said that he works 100 hours a week and has little time to spend with his wife and two children. Unlike Jack Ma, another legendary entrepreneur in China, Lei Jun graduated from Wuhan University with a major in computer science. He can't speak a foreign language and seldom travels abroad.
20 15 12 16, attended the opening ceremony of the second world internet conference as a guest.