Lau's attention for detail became famous in tech circles during that time when he smashed a Blu-ray player's logic board to express his disappointment about the circuitry design.
As the Vice President, he was instrumental in bringing CyanogenMod, an Android-based operating system, to Oppo N1 smartphone.
[4][5] In December 2013, Lau and Carl Pei launched their own company named "OnePlus" with the aim of creating "a more beautiful and higher quality product."
[8] OnePlus One received positive reviews from the tech community, praising the phone's specifications, performance, design and aggressive pricing.
[15] Another tech site, Phone Arena, commented that "if OnePlus can succeed selling its smartphone without television advertising, it will have done something that the major manufacturers could never accomplish.