Young man "accidentally" passed the university entrance exam as valedictorian, now CEO of an empire, and gave his old school a "rough" 4,400 billion

They can be domineering CEOs, academically superior male students, naive female students with their own love stories like in pictures. But whatever, those "standards" sometimes only exist in movies, we can rarely find such a perfect person in real life.

However, in real life, there will also be people who are close to the male and female protagonists of romantic movies. If you don't believe it, just look at businessman Lei Jun (born in 1969) - one of the famous billionaires in the "billion-people country" of China. He is the founder of Xiaomi - the world's largest technology company from scratch. For many people, Lei Jun is the "real-life male protagonist" because he is not only rich and well-educated, but also has an interesting personality and actively participates in activities that bring value to the community.

Portrait of businessman Loi Quan

The "school boy" of that year

It is no exaggeration to say that Lei Jun is the "embodiment" of the phrase "school bully". After graduating from Mianyang High School, he passed the entrance exam and continued his studies at Wuhan University - the top school in China.

Many people often joke that Lei Jun was careless and passed the university entrance exam with a score of 700/710. Because he once admitted that he did not study much and did not have high expectations. At Wuhan University, he "grabbed" all kinds of scholarships from the school. Not only that, he completed the university program, receiving a Bachelor of Computer Science degree after only 2 years. From his second year of university, Lei Jun also founded his first company with his friends.

Lei Jun (sitting in the middle) was also very handsome when he was young.

Wuhan University

After seven years of hard work, he gradually rose from an ordinary programmer to the leader of Kingsoft. He became the CEO of the company in 1998 and took the company public (IPO) shortly thereafter. On December 20, 2007, he stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Kingsoft. In 2010, he founded Xiaomi and has since become a leader in Chinese technology.

Lei Jun once shared: "When I was young, many people had a burning dream about a book, a movie or a person. Luckily for me, I really took my dream seriously and found a way to plan it into achievable goals one by one."

Donate 4,400 billion to old school

Not only good at studying and making money, Lei Jun is also known as an extremely generous person. He once donated 1.3 billion yuan (equivalent to 4,400 billion VND) to Wuhan University - the school he attended as a student - on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the school's founding.

So you can see, Lei Jun has a lot of money on the outside, but on the inside he is a very warm person, always grateful to those who have helped him have the life he has today. That is also the reason, even though he is an influential person in the country of billions of people, he is always loved by everyone thanks to his close, not too big but profound way of speaking.

Lei Jun is loved by everyone because of his humorous personality.

Every year, he gives public speeches, sometimes lasting several hours, to inspire young people.

In 2022, he said: "No one likes failures, but everyone will inevitably experience them, and many are even experiencing them. Because these pains are very difficult to avoid. If you avoid them, what will you do next? What we can and must do is to face the pain, continue to move forward in the pain, and let the pain shape us for the better. This is the meaning of pain and the gift of failures. And all failures, and even those that seem meaningless, will become your most precious treasure. Life is long, no matter what, let's keep the faith: always believe that good things are about to happen."