Hugo Barra was class president of the Class of 2000 and student keynote speaker at MIT Commencement 2000.
13 Facts About Hugo Barra
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In 1999, Hugo Barra co-founded startup Lobby7 with other MIT classmates with investment from SoftBank Group.
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Hugo Barra joined American technology company Google in London in March 2008 as Group Product Manager for the Google Mobile team.
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In 2010 Hugo Barra joined the Android team as Director of Product Management.
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Hugo Barra headlined the main keynote presentation at Google IO 2011, Google IO 2012, and Google IO 2013.
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Hugo Barra was promoted to Vice President of Android Product Management in 2012.
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In September 2013, Hugo Barra left Google for Chinese electronics company Xiaomi, serving as Vice President of International.
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In February 2014, Hugo Barra announced the launch of the new Redmi and Mi3 smartphones in Singapore, then in India.
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In March 2014, Hugo Barra visited Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturing company with plants in Brazil and Mexico responsible for assembling products for various tech brands, indicating plans for Xiaomi to expand into Latin America.
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In May 2014, Hugo Barra announced the launch of the Mi Pad, a 7.9 inch tablet.
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Hugo Barra explained his decision had been strongly motivated by a feeling of detachment from his family and the life he had built up in Silicon Valley.
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Hugo Barra announced in a Facebook post on 25 January 2017 that he would be joining Facebook as Vice President of virtual reality, writing:.
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Hugo Barra is a member of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Class of 2015.