Name
Terry Gou
Terry Gou
Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei University of Marine Technology
Taiwan
Hon Hai Precision
electronics, Self Made
$6,800,000,000
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#257 Billionaires 2019
#1 Taiwan's 50 Richest 2018
Terry Gou is chairman of Hon Hai Precision, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, whose top customers include Apple. Better known by its trade name, Foxconn, Hon Hai employs roughly a million people. The company bought Japanese electronics maker Sharp and Nokia's mobile phone brand in 2016.
Gou founded the business in 1974 with $7,500 and a belief that electronics products "would be an integral part of everyday life."Gou met with President Donald Trump in April 2017 to discuss investing in the U.S., and Trump attended the ground-breaking for a factory in Wisconsin in June 2018.
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