In fact, in the past, Chinese phone company had " sentence " Hugo Barra , Google's former vice president of Android, to work for the company. Thus, Xiaomi has been very successful in influencing the international market. The most obvious is that the company " usurped " Samsung's largest phone provider in India or " beat" LG to become the world's fifth-largest mobile phone manufacturer.
Now, the company continues to use old tricks and has reached an agreement with Jai Mani, a link strategist, analyst for Google Play. As for Xiaomi, Mani will take the position of senior product manager and become the leader for plans to expand its influence in the Indian market.
In an interview with The Wall Street Times , Hugo Barra said that the company plans to turn Mani into an important factor to " stick " between its Indian customers and its engineering department. companies in both Beijing ( China ) and India. Besides, Barra added that he and Mani are also " hard-working " of each other while working at Google.
Barra and Mani, while at Google
In the immediate future, perhaps the difficulties for Mani have not yet appeared. The reason is that, revenue and development momentum of Xiaomi is still developing very well in the second most populous market in this world.
But in the future, will the Mani contract be as successful as Hugo Barra? This question is still a mystery.