Lin Bin

Lin Bin (born 1968) is a Chinese entrepreneur, co-founder and vice president of Xiaomi.

Lin graduated from the radio electronics department of the Sun Yat-sen University. Later he received a master of science in computer science from Drexel University.

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

Lin Bin made the 2022 Forbes Billionaires List with an estimated wealth of $5.1 billion and occupied the 536th position.