Episode Synopsis: Eva Xiao from Technode joined us in a two parter episodes on one of China's top unicorns: Xiaomi. We traced the history of the company starting from the founders of the company, most notably Lei Jun and Bin Lin, and how they managed to bring in top talent such as Hugo Barra into the company. In our discussion, we discussed how their success first came about with their forked android operating system, MIUI that led them towards contract manufacturing and flash sales of the phone and reviewed the major products of the company.
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