Carl Pei is a Swedish entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer OnePlus. Pei is the founder and CEO of London-based technology company Nothing Technology Limited; The company launched its first smartphone ‘Phone 1’ globally on 12 July 2022.
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Wiki/Biography
Carl Pei, also known as Pei Yu, was born on Monday, September 11, 1989 (age 33 years; as of 2022) in Beijing, China. His zodiac sign is Virgo.
Carl Pei’s childhood photo
Soon after his birth, his family immigrated to America from China and lived there for a few years, before finally settling in Stockholm, Sweden. Carl Pei spent most of his childhood in Stockholm. Pei was initially interested in subjects such as science and philosophy, but due to his poor attention to studies, he received average grades in school. In 2008, he joined Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, to study Bachelor of Science. However, he left the course in 2011 to work full-time in the Chinese smartphone industry.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 6″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
There is not much information about his parents. He has a younger sister.
Carl Pei with his father in childhood
Carl Pei with his mother in childhood
Carl Pei with his sister
livelihood
Nokia
Carl Pei started his career in 2010 at telecommunications and technology enterprise Nokia. He worked there for about three months.
meizu
After leaving Nokia, Carl created a fan website for Meizu, a Chinese consumer electronics company. The website became known to Meizu’s Hong Kong branch, after which the company offered Pei a job in Meizu’s marketing team in 2011.
Carl Pei working on his laptop while sitting in a McDonald’s outlet
Opposition
In November 2011, Pei began working at Oppo as an international marketing manager; He worked directly under Pete Lau (Chinese entrepreneur) in the company.
oneplus
In December 2013, Carl Pei, along with his superior Pete Lau, founded OnePlus in Shenzhen, Guangdong; At that time Pei was only 24 years old. The Chinese consumer electronics firm launched its first product, OnePlus One, in April 2014. Although the company released the phone with a sales target of only 50,000 units, the device sold nearly one million units in its first year, generating revenue of approximately $300 million. The OnePlus One was followed by the OnePlus 2 and OnePlus 3 in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
Carl Pei during TV4’s morning news show
OnePlus 2 was launched by the company through a virtual reality video on YouTube, which received more than 296,000 views in October 2020. In June 2017, the company released its fastest-selling smartphone, the OnePlus 5.
Carl Pei has a OnePlus smartphone
Carl Pei oversaw the design and marketing department of OnePlus since its founding in 2013. He resigned as global director at the company in October 2020 to start a new venture.
Carl Pei during a Web Summit
Nothing
Carl Pei founded the London-based consumer technology company on 29 October 2020; Pei announced Nothing to the public on January 27, 2021. He founded the firm with a mission to break down barriers between people and technology and create a seamless digital future. The company has gathered a number of investors including iPod inventor Tony Fadell, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and American YouTuber Casey Neistat.
Carl Pei at Startup Grind
Nothing launched its first product ‘Ear (1)’ on 27 July 2021. Its first smartphone ‘Phone 1’ was launched globally on 12 July 2022.
Carl Pei’s Instagram post about Phone 1
award
- Included in Marketing Week Vision 100 list (2016)
- Included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his influence in the technology industry (2016)
Carl Pei at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit
- Included in the Fortune 40 Under 40 list (2019)
Favorite
- Entrepreneurs: Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs
- Gadget: Kindle Paperwhite
- To-do list managers: Email Inbox, Calendar, Asana, Trello, Jira
- Book: How Google Works, by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
- Quote: “Life can become much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that everything around you that you call life was created by people who were no more intelligent than you. And you can change it – you can influence it, you can create your own things that other people can use. by steve jobs
- School of philosophy: conservatism
Facts/General Knowledge
- Carl Pei’s favorite pastimes include traveling, reading books, and listening to music.
- He is fluent in several languages, including Chinese, English and Swedish.
- In an interview, Pei revealed that he had difficulty concentrating in school, and he spent as little time as possible in school. He further revealed that he used to spend all his time on the computer after coming back home from his school.
- In an interview, when Carl Pei was asked about his workspace setup, he said,
My workplace is really very messy. I am trying to get all my work done in the office and not take it home. Often, this means staying up too late and leaving a lot of stuff on my desk. My workplace setup consists of a 27-inch iMac with the Magic Trackpad on the left side of the keyboard. For music, I use a nuForce u-DAC 2 with Sennheiser HD650s and a Graham Sly Solo amp. This is joy.”
- He is a casual drinker.
Carl Pei at the Ritz Carlton Shanghai
- In an interview he revealed that a few years ago he used to wear the same print T-shirt every day; He used to have nine exactly the same T-shirts and he wore one every day.
- He has great admiration for American business magnate Steve Jobs. There is also a small bobblehead of Steve on his work desk. Once, he even went barefoot to watch a Jobs film, thus paying tribute to him. Carl’s career is also similar to that of Steve Jobs as both of them first co-founded a successful technology firm and then left the firm to start their own venture.
An Instagram post by Carl Pei
- Carl is trained in mixed martial arts (MMA).
Carl Pei is practicing MMA
- He follows a non-vegetarian diet.
- Interestingly, the popular OnePlus tagline ‘Never Settle’ was created by Carl Pei. A master of short and punchy taglines, Pei also coined the famous term ‘Flagship Killer’.
Carl Pei addressing employees at OnePlus
- He is fond of ice cream and has expressed his love for it many times on his social media accounts.
- During an Ask Me Anything session on Instagram, Pei revealed that he was a fan of anime. For the 2019 Halloween, he dressed as Naruto Uzumaki from the popular Japanese manga series.
Carl Pei dressed as Naruto Uzumaki on Halloween
- During an interview, Pei revealed that he was once a big fan of Apple products.
Carl Pei’s Instagram post
- Following the launch of the Nothings Phone 1, #DearNothing started trending on Twitter in India. Apparently, the hashtag was used by South Indians to taunt and criticize Nothing and its founder Carl Pei after a fake Phone 1 unboxing video was uploaded on the popular YouTube channel ‘PrasadTechintelugu’. This video, created as a prank, featured the creator unboxing a fake Nothing Phone 1 box. However, the box turned out to be empty and inside was a letter which read,
Hi Prasad, This device is not for South Indians. Thank you.”
Excerpts from the fake unboxing video of Nothing’s Phone 1
The letter was written in a dotted font that resembled the font that Nothing used in its promotional material. Soon after the video was released online, many people, including tech enthusiasts who were waiting for the phone’s release, mistook the prank for an official communication from Nothing and started criticizing the brand on Twitter (fake letter For which the company never wrote). It was written in a tweet,
#DearNothing…We are also a part of India!”
A tweet by Satish Shekhar for nothing
Reportedly, the video was made in protest against the lack of Nothing Phone (1) promotional units provided to regional content creators in India.
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