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BUSINESSPEOPLE from Taiwan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 6 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 19th most number of Businesspeople behind South Korea and Brazil.

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Steve Chen (1978 - )

With an HPI of 57.77, Steve Chen is the most famous Taiwanese Businessperson.  His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.

Steve Chen (Chinese: 陳士駿; Wade–Giles: Chen Shih-chün; born August 25, 1978) is a Taiwanese-born American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the American video-sharing website YouTube. After he co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. and built the video-sharing app MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014.

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2. Terry Gou (1950 - )

With an HPI of 51.72, Terry Gou is the 2nd most famous Taiwanese Businessperson.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Terry Gou (Chinese: 郭台銘; pinyin: Guō Táimíng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koeh Tâi-bêng; born 18 October 1950) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and politician. Gou is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. Founded in 1974, Foxconn grew to become an international business empire, becoming the largest private employer and exporter in mainland China with a workforce of 1.2 million. As of 2022, Gou had a net worth of US$6.8 billion.Beginning in 2016, speculation surrounding Gou's political ambitions arose ahead of the 2020 presidential election. In 2019, Gou resigned from Foxconn and joined the Kuomintang (KMT) to run for president, declaring he was instructed by the sea goddess Mazu in a dream to contest the election. Gou ultimately lost the election, coming in second in the Kuomintang primary. After leaving the party following the 2019 primary, Gou rejoined in 2023 and announced his intention to run for president in the 2024 presidential election, but after running as an independent candidate, he ended his campaign in late November 2023.Once described as an "old friend" by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Gou has been characterized as friendly to Mainland business interests during his political and business career. In December 2022, Gou was credited with helping to successfully lobby the Xi Jinping Administration to ease zero-COVID rules implemented during the pandemic. On foreign policy, Gou has criticized the Taiwan independence movement and has called for a deescalation of Sino–American tensions. Owing to his business background and image as a political outsider, Gou has been compared in international media to former U.S. President Donald Trump.

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3. Jensen Huang (1963 - )

With an HPI of 48.72, Jensen Huang is the 3rd most famous Taiwanese Businessperson.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Jîn-hun; born 1963) is an American businessman, electrical engineer, and the co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia. As of March 2024, Huang's net worth was estimated to be $81.7 billion by Forbes, making him the 17th richest person in the world.

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4. Jerry Yang (1968 - )

With an HPI of 48.59, Jerry Yang is the 4th most famous Taiwanese Businessperson.  His biography has been translated into 38 different languages.

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc., which he started with classmate David Filo in 1994.As of July 2023, Yang has a net worth of $2.5 billion.

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5. Lisa Su (1969 - )

With an HPI of 44.78, Lisa Su is the 5th most famous Taiwanese Businessperson.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Lisa Su (simplified Chinese: 苏姿丰; traditional Chinese: 蘇姿丰; pinyin: Su Zifeng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: So͘ Chu-hong; born 7 November 1969) is an American business executive and electrical engineer who is the president, chief executive officer and chair of AMD. Early in her career, Su worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips during her time as vice president of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center.Su was appointed president and CEO of AMD in October 2014, after joining the company in 2012 and holding roles such as senior vice president of AMD's global business units and chief operating officer. She currently serves on the boards of Cisco Systems, Global Semiconductor Alliance and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Recognized with a number of awards and accolades, she was named Executive of the Year by EE Times in 2014 and one of the World's Greatest Leaders in 2017 by Fortune. She became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal in 2021.

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6. Kai-Fu Lee (1961 - )

With an HPI of 41.88, Kai-Fu Lee is the 6th most famous Taiwanese Businessperson.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Kai-Fu Lee (traditional Chinese: 李開復; simplified Chinese: 李开复; pinyin: Lǐ Kāifù; born December 3, 1961) is a Taiwanese businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer. He is currently based in Beijing, China. Lee developed a speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system as his Ph.D. thesis at Carnegie Mellon University. He later worked as an executive, first at Apple, then SGI, Microsoft, and Google. He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, due to a one-year non-compete agreement that he signed with Microsoft in 2000 when he became its corporate vice president of interactive services.He works in the Chinese internet sector and was the founding director of Microsoft Research Asia, serving from 1998 to 2000; and president of Google China, serving from July 2005 through September 4, 2009. After resigning from his post, he founded Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm. He created a website, Wǒxuéwǎng (Chinese: 我学网; lit. 'I-Learn Web') dedicated to helping young Chinese people in their studies and careers and wrote "10 Letters to Chinese College Students". He is a micro-blogger in China, in particular on Sina Weibo, where he has over 50 million followers. In his 2018 book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Lee describes how China is rapidly moving forward to become the global leader in Artificial intelligence, and may well surpass the United States, because of China's demographics and its amassing of huge data sets. In a 28 September 2018 interview on the PBS Amanpour program, he stated that artificial intelligence, with all its capabilities, will never be capable of creativity or empathy.

Pantheon has 6 people classified as businesspeople born between 1950 and 1978. Of these 6, 6 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living businesspeople include Steve Chen, Terry Gou, and Jensen Huang. As of April 2022, 2 new businesspeople have been added to Pantheon including Lisa Su and Kai-Fu Lee.

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