Terry Gou

Terry Gou is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and politician, born in Banqiao, Taiwan, in 1950 to parents who had relocated from mainland China. He founded Hon Hai Plastics Corporation in 1974, the predecessor of Hon Hai Precision Industry and Foxconn, expanded the company into computer engineering during the 1980s and opened its first mainland China manufacturing facility in 1988. Foxconn became the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, notably through its production of Apple's iPhone, and acquired the Japanese electronics company Sharp Corporation in 2016. He later entered politics, seeking the Kuomintang nomination for the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections and then running briefly as an independent in 2023.