Biography | 雷军 Lei Jun — Room 807 in This Building, Where Xiaomi Started Over a Pot of Congee

Xiaomi's registered company date is 3 March 2010.

The day the firm itself tells as the founding is 6 April.

Fourteen people met in room 807 of the Yingu Building at Baofusi Bridge, on the northeast corner of the North Fourth Ring and Zhongguancun East Road.

They ate a pot of millet congee and opened the company.

The office was about 500 square metres.

Nine months later the team moved to Wangjing.

The glass tower is still there: 北四环西路9号, a 25-storey block finished in 2000, a short walk from Wudaokou station.

It is an ordinary Zhongguancun office building, not a museum.

What happened inside was the start of a hardware-and-internet company that Lei Jun built with Lin Bin and five other co-founders.

Do not treat the later Qinghe campus as this pin.

That campus is a later headquarters.

This pin is the first rented floor.

Photo: Portrait of Lei Jun, 中国新闻网, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.