I came across a piece of news a few days ago, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun returned to his hometown in Xiantao, Hubei to bid farewell to his old father.
At first, I doubted the authenticity of this news. Then I saw many netizens leaving messages on Lei Jun’s Weibo to express their condolences. Lei Jun himself or Xiaomi did not come out to refute the rumors. Moreover, judging from the photos posted by netizens, although the man holding the portrait had a blue face and a mask, he could tell at a glance that it was Lei Jun himself.
In the special period when Omicron is spreading widely, once an elderly person dies, the first reaction of many people is to associate the cause of death with the new crown .
Birth, old age, sickness and death are the laws of nature, and everyone, whether rich or poor, must accept them. A certain number of elderly people die in our country every year. The elderly face many risk factors, and COVID-19 is only one of the risks. It cannot be said that the death of elderly people is definitely related to COVID-19. As for the true cause of Lei Jun's father's illness, only Lei Jun and his family know it. Lei Jun has never disclosed it to the outside world. Outsiders' opinions are all unfounded speculations, which is disrespectful to the deceased and his family.
So I don’t want to explore the causes of the elderly here. There are other aspects that deserve our attention.
My first feeling is that the photos revealed by netizens confirm that Lei Jun is a child from a rural family. Lei Jun is an out-and-out self-made man.
For most of the richest people in our country, many netizens do not believe that they are self-made, thinking that they either have strong family backgrounds or rely on some kind of connections.
There is probably only one person who has been widely recognized by netizens as a self-made man. Jingdong founder Liu Qiangdong . A child from the countryside studied hard, got into a prestigious school, started his own business and started his own business. Finally, he founded Jingdong through his own hard work, led Jingdong to become bigger and stronger and successfully went public. He has tens of billions of wealth and married Bai Fumei.
Now it seems that the self-made rich people should be included in Lei Jun. He is also a child from the countryside. According to netizens, Lei Jun's father graduated from a normal school and was an ordinary teacher. He was an intellectual at that time. But it is pure nonsense to say that Lei Jun's father had any direct help in Lei Jun's success. This status is extremely ordinary. At most, it can provide his children with a slightly better-off life than ordinary rural children.
Lei Jun studied hard and was admitted to the prestigious 985 university Wuhan University . He completed four years of college credits in just two years. Lei Jun is not a nerd who only knows how to read. He dares to think and act, and he founded a company with several classmates in his senior year.
After graduating from college, Lei Jun entered Kingsoft to work. We should not think from today’s perspective that Lei Jun relied on some connections to work in a large company. In fact, Kingsoft was just a small company at that time. How small was it? In Lei Jun's own words, there were only five people in Jinshan at that time, and he was the sixth person.
Lei Jun worked hard at Jinshan for 16 years and led Jinshan to successfully go public. He achieved personal financial freedom before he was forty years old. But in Lei Jun's eyes, he believed that he had accomplished nothing at the age of forty, so he founded Xiaomi and led Xiaomi to great success and became one of the best-selling mobile phone brands in China. Today, Xiaomi has a market value of nearly HK$300 billion.
After achieving career success at Jinshan, Lei Jun has reached a higher level at Xiaomi.
Last year, Lei Jun ranked 256th on the Forbes rich list with a net worth of US$7.6 billion.
A child from a rural family has climbed to the top of his career step by step with his own hard work. This is an inspirational story of starting from scratch. Another detail revealed by
netizens also caught my attention. Some people said that Lei Jun had not sent messages online for several days.
I went to Lei Jun’s Weibo to take a look, and sure enough, he used to post on Weibo almost every day. The most recent Weibo was posted on the morning of December 28, 2022. As of today, he has not posted on Weibo for 5 consecutive days.
Some netizens revealed that Lei Jun has returned to his hometown.
I felt quite moved when I saw this. Who is Lei Jun? The boss of a large company with a market value of nearly 300 billion Hong Kong dollars has also invested in many other companies. He has so many things to deal with and his work is so busy that ordinary people cannot imagine it. In order to take care of his father, accompany him through the last days of his life, and deal with his father's funeral affairs, he put down the work at hand. At this moment, nothing is more important than his father, which shows that he is a filial piety person who values love and justice.
Some people may be disdainful and think this is nothing. Easier said than done. In real life, how many sons who work in other places are willing to stop working and go home to accompany their parents because their parents are seriously ill?
A man who is both hard-working and affectionate has no reason not to succeed.
