Lei Jun met Lin Bin in 2008. At that time, Lin Bin wanted to promote the cooperation between Google and UCWEB. Lei Jun was surprised to find that Lin Bin had a heartfelt love for products, while Lin Bin was very devoted to his work and products at Google. At that time, Lei Jun often went to chat with Lin Bin, and the two big men often stayed up all night together until one or two in the morning. Chatting, the two changed from partners to good friends.
Once, Lei Jun chatted with Lin Bin, and Lin Bin revealed: "I want to start my own business and do an Internet music project. What do you think? "
Lei Jun was overjoyed and said to Lin Bin, "Don't engage in music. Let's invest some money in music, and others can do it. It is so boring. Let's do bigger things together! " In this way, the first person affectionately called Bin boarded Lei Jun's Xiaomi warship.
The story of Lin Bin and KK:
In 2005, Lin Bin met kk at Microsoft. At that time, Lin Bin was responsible for setting up the engineering team of Microsoft Asia Institute of Engineering, and needed to invite engineers with product development experience from Microsoft headquarters to join. Kk joined Microsoft Headquarters on 1996, and was one of the few China engineers who joined Microsoft in the early days. KK is not only good at technology, but also handsome. Lin Bin persuaded kk that the development of China people in China is king. In the future, domestic development opportunities will far exceed those of the United States, so kk will return to Beijing to form a Windows Mobile R&D team with Lin Bin.
At the end of 2009, the Microsoft Windows Phone team was reorganized internally, and the R&D team with kk over 100 people was under the pressure of reorganization. Kk was very depressed and came to Lin Bin to complain. Lin Bin suggested kk quit his job at Microsoft and come out to start a China company with Lei Bin. In this way, kk became the third co-founder to board the Xiaomi warship.
The story of Lin Bin and Zhou Guangping
In 20 10, Lei Jun and Lin Bin decided to start the research and development of mobile phone hardware, and set out to find a co-founder with many years of experience in mobile phone hardware research and development in China. I talked to dozens of recognized experts in the industry and didn't find a suitable one. When he was almost desperate, Lin Bin thought of Zhou Guangping, a Motorola mobile phone genius mentioned by many people in the interview. At that time, Zhou Guangping had left the motorcycle to start a business, and it seemed unlikely to join Xiaomi. But Lin Bin said to Lei Jun: "Let's treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor and talk it over." . The next day, Zhou Guangping talked with Lei Jun for two hours, and then called Lin Bin. "Guangping is very strong. If you have the opportunity, you can continue to talk." . After that, Lin Bin Lei Jun and Zhou Guangping chatted several times. Two weeks later, Zhou Guangping and a dozen former engineers from Motorola R&D Center joined Xiaomi.
The story of Lin Bin and Emoko.
Hugo barra, former vice president of Google, is responsible for the product design of Android. Tiger Brother joined Google on March 10, 2008, and was responsible for the design of Google mobile products. On March 1 1, emoko flew to Beijing. On June 14, Lin Bin invited a dinner party at Baijia Courtyard in Suzhou Street, and had dinner with the boss of Google Mobile's R&D team including emoko. After that, Lin Bin and Emoko worked closely together in Google Mobile R&D for two years. On 20 10, Lei Jun and Lin Bin founded Xiaomi together, and Emoko paid close attention to it. Every time Lin Bin goes to Silicon Valley on business, he always eats with Tiger Brother and talks about the latest progress of Xiaomi. Tiger Brother paid attention to the development of Xiaomi from the first day. He recognized the triathlon business model of Xiaomi's software+hardware+Internet service and the model of e-commerce direct selling mobile phones. In 20 12 years, Xiaomi mobile phone became more and more popular. Lin Bin began to discuss the possibility of joining with Emoko and chatted with Lei Jun and Emoko at the same time. 20 13, emoko finally decided to join. On September 5, 20 13, Tiger Brother attended the Xiaomi conference and officially announced that he had joined Xiaomi to take charge of overseas business.
The first candidate of the company is Xiaomi.
On September 1 1, at the "4G & virtual operator Summit Forum" hosted by Sina Technology, Lin Bin, President of Xiaomi Technology, mentioned the origin of Xiaomi. He said that the first candidate name of Xiaomi Technology Company is not Xiaomi, but Red Star Technology. At that time, they thought that Red Star could represent domestic mobile phones, but the registration of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau failed because there was Red Star Erguotou.
According to the revolutionary base, the founding team of Xiaomi Technology remembered "Xiaomi plus rifle", so the eight founders decided to name the company Xiaomi Technology, focusing on domestic mobile phones and Xiaomi plus rifle for revolution.
Lin Bin said that starting from this year, Xiaomi will fully promote 4G terminals, and the mobile terminals released this year will fully support mobile, Unicom and telecom 4G networks.
Lin Bin revealed that in 20 13 years, Xiaomi sold180,000 mobile phones; 20 14 In the first half of the year, Xiaomi's mobile phone sales volume was 26 1 10000, up 27 1% year-on-year, and the tax-included sales volume was 33 billion yuan, up 149% year-on-year. Xiaomi mobile phone accounts for 70% of total revenue.