Terry Gou’s relentless race for profits

Hon Hai Precision Industry is no household name, but the company assembles many of the world’s top-selling gadgets. Now its hard-driving founder has even bigger ambitions. Alex Rankine reports.

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Terry Gou's Hon Hai Precision Industry is best known for assembling the iPhone for Apple, but he now has bigger plans, says Quentin Webb for Breakingviews. The Taiwanese billionaire who Forbes estimates is worth $8.5bn plans to diversify after acquiring Japan's Sharp in 2016 and splashing $866m on electronics-accessories maker Belkin in March this year.

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Alex is an investment writer who has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2015. He has been the magazine’s markets editor since 2019. 

Alex has a passion for demystifying the often arcane world of finance for a general readership. While financial media tends to focus compulsively on the latest trend, the best opportunities can lie forgotten elsewhere. 

He is especially interested in European equities – where his fluent French helps him to cover the continent’s largest bourse – and emerging markets, where his experience living in Beijing, and conversational Chinese, prove useful. 

Hailing from Leeds, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Manchester.