Lei Jun Wants to Be China's Steve Jobs, Despite Trump's Trade War

From the time he was a small boy, Lei Jun strived to get close to technology. Computers obsessed his every waking hour. But in the rural China of the early 1980s, his teacher father's monthly salary of $7 put a $2,000 [f500link]Apple[/f500link] II far out of reach. So Lei devised elaborate ways to fiddle with anything high-tech.

He would wait for hours outside his school's tiny computer lab, hoping to sneak in when a classmate missed his allotted turn.