Lei Jun

Founder and CEO, Xiaomi
$13.67B
$100.7M (0.7%)
as of 07/02/24

About Lei Jun

Lei Jun is the cofounder and chairman of Hong Kong-listed Xiaomi, one of the world's most popular smartphone brands.

Best known for its value-for-money devices, Xiaomi has also been trying to crack the high-end market.

In 2021 Xiaomi announced its plan to make electric cars, which Lei called his "last major start-up project."

Lei also chairs Hong Kong-listed software firm Kingsoft and is an investor in JOYY Inc., a Nasdaq-listed live streaming and social media platform formerly known as YY.com.

Personal stats

Citizenship

People's Republic of China

Source of wealth

Smartphones

Residence

Beijing, People's Republic of China

Marital status

Married

Birth date

12/16/69 (age 54)

Number of children

2

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Wuhan University

Self-made

self-made

Lei Jun’s fortune is worth

228K

troy ounces of gold

210K

median U.S. household

137K

median U.S. income

0.273%

U.S. credit card volume

0.055%

GDP of the United States

0.04%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Lei's first success was selling online retailer Joyo.com to Amazon in 2004 for $75 million.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NYSE | CMCM-US

Cheetah Mobile

NASDAQ | YY-US

JOYY Inc.Sponsored ADR

HONG KONG | 3888-HK

Kingsoft Corp Ltd

HONG KONG | 1810-HK

Xiaomi Corp.

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