| Re: Why Singapore or Asian countries failed to produce a Bill Gate ? |
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Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: abian_chenabian_chen Date: Jul 29, 2008 10:42
Yep. I have pointed that out too. I said if Terry Kou is American then
he will be known worldwide just like Hollywood movie stars get famous
easier than actors in other nations.
Terry Kou is the richest man in Taiwan now. He lost US$2 billion last
several weeks because Taiwan's stock market dropped from 9300 pts to a
few days ago 6700 pts.
On Jul 29, 1:27 pm, bmo...@ nyx.net wrote: > On Jul 29, 10:03 am, abian_c...@ yahoo.com wrote:
> >> Profit margin for hardware compnies is always small unless you have
>> products can be monoply like Microsoft Windows. Hon Hai's profit
>> margin has maintained about 5%% but their annual revenue growth has
>> maintained over 30%% annually. Of course, they are doing OEM.
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> I won't disagree with any of that but I think the reason that we know
> so much about Bill Gates and don't hear so much about Terry Guo is
> twofold: partially because Gates made so much money and partially
> because as someone in the US Gates has more visibility in the US than
> someone from Asia.
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