Gou Fei, a recently trained kindergarten teacher, visited West China to see whether she could help.
"Even I recommended that he play, " says Daewoo Motors Chairman Kim Tae Gou (no relation).
Just as plausibly, however, Mr Gou is making a bet on its continued success.
Company Chairman Terry Gou made an unprecedented public apology for the string of tragedies.
Mr. Gou said the letter was poorly worded by Hon Hai's legal team.
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According to Louis Woo, Gou is aware of the example of Henry Ford.
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Mr. Gou says he wants to upgrade Longhua's facilities and take on more advanced work, such as research and development.
He then claimed the little-regarded WBU international title in May when lvory Coast fighter Augustine N'Gou retired in the third round.
During the tour, Gou told reporters that he has trouble sleeping for fear of receiving a phone call about another mishap.
For GoPro, Gou sees the relationship benefitting the company in two ways.
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The Foxconn Group CEO, Terry Gou, has already stated that the Chengdu plant would also be part of the production for the iPad 2.
Ms. Gou, 21, was buried under rubble for about 10 hours after the 2008 quake and never regained sight out of her left eye.
Marks, a longtime competitor with Gou while at Flextronics, now counts Foxconn and its CEO as investors in his fund, and connected the pair.
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Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou said last month that the yield rate of Apple's touch-screen devices hasn't been satisfactory and has hurt its profitability.
According to DigiTimes, Gou said the program will give the engineers an environment to learn the Chinese language and first-hand experience in the manufacturing process.
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GoPro was first introduced to Gou through former Flextronics CEO Michael Marks, who had invested in GoPro through his venture fund at Riverwood Capital, said Woodman.
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In a further attempt to attract more foreign investment into the markets, Mr Gou said the regulator was also considering raising the investment cap on individual QFIIs.
Still, Mr. Cook and Mr. Gou have a strong relationship and have known each other even before Mr. Cook joined Apple in 1998, one of the people said.
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Terry Gou, Foxconn's Founder and CEO, will join GoPro's board.
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Mr. Gou combines intense drive with a martial leadership style.
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In June 2011, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou announced plans to deploy one million robots across factory assembly lines, as part of a company-wide effort to adopt more automated manufacturing processes.
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Gou remained reserved when looking back on the decision.
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Mr. Gou has begun looking for a successor at Hon Hai, focusing on candidates in their late 30s or early 40s and asking senior managers to prove themselves by running their units assertively.
"Needless to say, we are over the moon to have Terry Gou and Foxconn join us on our mission to scale GoPro into one of the great enabling companies of our time, " said GoPro Founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman.
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Gou has endorsed the growing use of robots by arguing that they can free employees from repetitive and boring work, and some are specifically designed to operate in dangerous or special environments where conditions could pose a risk to human health, China Daily reported.
As you might imagine, becoming the dominant player in electronics component manufacturing in China -- particularly at a time when competition has never been fiercer -- takes a particular personality type, and after reading BusinessWeek's profile of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, you get a very real sense that the dude meets the criteria.
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Gou envisions a fully-automated (and presumably almost employee-free) component factory inside of five years, has qualms about expanding his manufacturing presence in America ("I don't want to spend time having people sue me every day"), and pays executive bonuses out of his own dividends to protect the company's bottom line... so yeah, he's quite the industrialist.
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