Lin Bin

Last updated
Lin Bin
Born1967 (age 57–58)
CitizenshipUnited States [1]
Alma mater Sun Yat-sen University (BEng)
Drexel University
OccupationEntrepreneur

Lin Bin (born 1961) is a Chinese-American billionaire entrepreneur, co-founder and vice chairman of Xiaomi. [1]

Lin studied Electrical Engineering graduating from the radio electronics department of the Sun Yat-sen University. Later he received a master of science in Computer Engineering from Drexel University. [1] [2]

After graduation, Lin started at Microsoft, where he worked on Internet Explorer. [1] From 2006 to 2010, he worked as an engineering director at Google and served as Vice President of Google China’s Engineering Research Institute. [3] In 2010 Lin co-founded Xiaomi together with Lei Jun and five other individuals, serving as president of the company. [4] After previously stepping down from his role, in 2019 he became the vice chairman of the company. [5]

Lin Bin made the 2025 Forbes Billionaires List with an estimated wealth of $18.1 billion and occupied the 115th position worldwide. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lin Bin". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  2. ↑ Russell Flannery (2015-03-04). "2015 Forbes Billionaires China Shout-Out: Xiaomi's Bin Lin". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  3. ↑ Shu, Catherine (29 August 2013). "Xiaomi, What Americans Need To Know". TechCrunch. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Clover, Charles (11 November 2014). "Chinese tech: Selling to the next billion". www.ft.com. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  5. ↑ Anmol Sachdeva (2019-12-02). "Xiaomi Co-founder Lei Jun Steps Down as China President Amid Leadership Reshuffle". Beebom. Retrieved 2022-04-21.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.