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The smart phone(智能手机)company Xiaomi Technology was set up in Beijing in 20 1 0.
Now it has become one of leading mobile phone companies in China. Some people skip work and school to wait in line to buy its main product:Mi phones.
The man behind this craze(狂热)is Lei Jun. The 47-year-old is the co—founder(联合创始人) and CEO of Xiaomi. Lei was born in Xiantao, Hubei, in 1969. At the age of l 8. he entered Wuhan University to study computer science. A book that he read there changed his life. It was Fire n the Valley, which tells the story of the co—founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. Encouraged by the book. the 21—year—old set up a company. But it soon failed because he lacked(缺少)a long—trill plan.
After graduation, Lei joined King soft, a software company. In l 6 years, he became one of the top IT company leaders. But that's not the only thing he wanted. “I had my dream not realized and it was calling for me every night, ”said Lei. At the age of 38, he left Kingsoft and started his own company. This time, he knew what would make a promising new company:following the trends but keeping innovating(创新). He entered the smart phone market.
Lei is a big fan of the iPhone. But instead of creating a copy of it, he kept thinking about how to make it better.
At the age of 41, he co—founded Xiaomi. Now, there are more than l4 million Mi phone users. Lei helped make online shopping popular in China. “People become great because they have dreams, ”said Lei.
