Wang: Taiwan's Richest Woman To Challenge Apple
"We should be ahead of Apple." That's how HTC chairwoman Cher Wang, dubbed "the female Steve Jobs" by industry insiders and "the most powerful woman in global technology" by the New York Times, once confidently said. The daughter of the "King of Formosa Plastics", who has struggled with global giants for 20 years and rarely failed, founded HTC, which surpassed Nokia in 2011 with a market value of $33.8 billion ($32.84 billion). With a net worth of $6.8 billion, she and her husband, Chen Wen-chi, have beaten Terry Gou, chairman of Hon Hai Group, the world's contract manufacturing king, to become Taiwan's richest man.