Carl Pei, or Pei Yu, is a Chinese-Swedish entrepreneur.
11 Facts About Carl Pei
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Carl Pei co-founded OnePlus along with Pete Lau, in 2013 and was the director of OnePlus Global.
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Carl Pei left the firm in October 2020 to start a new hardware venture, called Nothing.
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Carl Pei pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in 2008 at the Stockholm School of Economics, but he dropped out in 2011 to work full-time in the Chinese smartphone industry.
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Carl Pei joined Nokia in 2010, and he worked at the company for three months.
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Carl Pei co-founded OnePlus with Pete Lau in Shenzhen, Guangdong in December 2013.
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In July 2015, Carl Pei presented the OnePlus 2 through a virtual reality video on YouTube.
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Carl Pei claimed the OnePlus 5 to be their fastest-selling device to date shortly after its release in June 2017.
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Carl Pei oversaw the design and marketing of OnePlus devices until leaving the company in October 2020.
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Carl Pei is based in London and landed a number of notable investors, such as iPod inventor Tony Fadell, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTuber Casey Neistat.
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On February 28,2023 Carl Pei announced that in their next Nothing smartphone, they would be partnering with Qualcomm for their eighth generation chipsets for their next smartphone.