China's Steve Jobs?
Xiaomi founder Lei Jun is like the Yao Ming of Chinese entrepreneurship, a man seemingly born to start companies. With a helmet of black hair, a broad smile and dimpled cheeks, Lei looks almost as baby-faced as he did when he first became CEO of the software company Kingsoft back in 1998, when he was 28.
At that point, Lei had been working for Kingsoft …
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