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'''Lei Jun''' ('''雷军''') is the founder and CEO of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi, currently the world's third-largest smartphone maker after Samsung and Apple.
 
'''Lei Jun''' ('''雷军''') is the founder and CEO of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi, currently the world's third-largest smartphone maker after Samsung and Apple.
  
Chinese-language media outlets sometimes use the word "baofahu," loosely translated as "new money," to describe Xiaomi. However, the term is no compliment: "baofahu" is often used derogatorily to describe lower-class Chinese who have gotten rich overnight.
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Chinese-language media outlets sometimes use the word "baofahu," loosely translated as "new money," to describe Xiaomi. However, the term is no compliment: "Baofahu" is often used derogatorily to describe lower-class Chinese who have gotten rich overnight.
  
 
Lei Jun usually wears a black shirt and blue jeans like Steve Jobs did, and much of his phone's design shares similarities with Apple products. But the ideas behind his sales and marketing edge are anything but imitative.
 
Lei Jun usually wears a black shirt and blue jeans like Steve Jobs did, and much of his phone's design shares similarities with Apple products. But the ideas behind his sales and marketing edge are anything but imitative.

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Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi.

Lei Jun (雷军) is the founder and CEO of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi, currently the world's third-largest smartphone maker after Samsung and Apple.

Chinese-language media outlets sometimes use the word "baofahu," loosely translated as "new money," to describe Xiaomi. However, the term is no compliment: "Baofahu" is often used derogatorily to describe lower-class Chinese who have gotten rich overnight.

Lei Jun usually wears a black shirt and blue jeans like Steve Jobs did, and much of his phone's design shares similarities with Apple products. But the ideas behind his sales and marketing edge are anything but imitative.

"Instead of brandishing phones' high-cost luxury appeal like that Cupertino company," Fast Company wrote in February 2014, Lei "sells them in buzz-generating flash sales at razor-thin margins, then takes advantage of revenue streams provided by software."

Xiaomi, whose name means "millet" in Chinese, was founded in April 2010 by Lei and his friends in Zhongguancun, Beijing's technology hub, which has been called "China's Silicon Valley." The smartphone company has surpassed Samsung to become China's leading cell phone vendor, claiming 30 percent of the country's market share in the third quarter of this year.

Xiaomi, which didn't release its first smartphone until 2011, is already planning to expand into foreign markets including Russia, Brazil, and Mexico later this year.