He may not be the CEO of OnePlus, but Car Pei is the face and voice of the growing startup. You can see in his previous interviews and sit-downs that he’s a very honest and open person, not to mention creative and ambitious, and he recently had a one-on-one with the people at Greenbot to discuss his company and its new smartphone: the OnePlus 2.

Carl Pei is the co-founder and Head of Global at OnePlus. He’s the guy answering your questions during the company’s Reddit AMAs. He’s the type of executive you can tweet and he’ll actually tweet you back. Pei has made himself openly and readily available to OnePlus fans on the Internet. He’s committed to his job of growing OnePlus as a smartphone manufacturer, but he wants the company to be more than just another OEM for Android fans to pine over—he wants to foster a community that empowers its users to strive for something better. I briefly chatted with Pei during the launch OnePlus 2 in San Francisco to get a better sense of who he is behind his online handles.