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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He now sees the Foxconn CEO as a fatherly figure, and spent Super Bowl weekend jet-setting to the Far East to play golf with his new business partner.

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Update: Even Foxconn is now jumping on this bandwagon.

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Labor issues became so serious that Foxconn Technology Group, which now employs 1.2 million workers in China, decided it had to automate.

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Even Foxconn is starting to automate the Apple factories with robots now.

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