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  1. 20VC with Harry Stebbings58 min

    Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947

    Hugo Barra, Harry Stebbings, Gustav

    Hugo Born, a Brazilian immigrant and MIT graduate whose career spans leadership roles at Google, Xiaomi, and Meta's Oculus, discusses his strategy for navigating hardware versus software product markets and cross-cultural management. Drawing on experiences expanding Xiaomi to the top spot in India and leading the VR transition at Meta, Born details a rigorous hiring framework and the critical importance of emotional storytelling in product marketing. He concludes that true resilience and organizational success require enduring early career struggles while balancing data-driven science with the intuitive art of uncovering unspoken user needs.