Nowadays, many people use age as an excuse, think that they are in their 30s and are not suitable for starting a business. However, there are a group of late-achieving entrepreneurs in China's technology and Internet industries. They embark on the road of entrepreneurship at the age of 40 or 50. Although starting a business is late, it is done well.
For example, Liu Chuanzhi 40 founded Lenovo Holdings Co., Ltd. Ren ZhengfeiHan 44-year-old founded HuaweiHan . There is a man who is still working at the age of 55 and started his business at the age of 56. At the age of 86, he is still in charge of the trillion empire and achieves another success. He is the father of Taiwan’s semiconductors and founder of TSMC, Zhang Zhongmou .
Zhang Zhongmou was born in 1931. He was not from a wealthy family since childhood. For a period of time, he was even in a state of displaced residence. He has traveled to more than 6 cities and has attended 10 schools.
When he was young, Zhang Zhongmou came to the United States to study and successfully entered Harvard University. 24-year-old Zhang Zhongmou started his first job in the United States. He is a semiconductor engineer. At the age of 27, he entered Texas Instruments , and this has been done for more than 20 years. Zhang Zhongmou, 54, returned to Taiwan and started a Taiwan electromechanical circuit manufacturing company at the age of 56.
In 2001, TSMC Chairman Zhang Zhongmou, 70 years old, and Zhang Shufen, who was 13 years younger than him, secretly married in , California, , the wedding was quite low-key, and only a few relatives and friends were invited to attend.
This is the remarriage of the two, and it was also a sensation. The reason is that Zhang Shufen once worked under Zhang Zhongmou and was also the ex-wife of Wu Dingkai, a former subordinate of Zhang Zhongmou and director of chemical engineering at Taiwan Institute of Technology Research.
The two met because of their work relationship. In 1985, Zhang Zhongmou returned to Taiwan from the United States to take over the position of director of the Institute of Technology Research, and Zhang Shufen served as his secretary. Zhang Shufen has a lively personality, cheerful and thoughtful manners. She is one of the few candidates who can comfort Zhang Zhongmou who was regarded as a hot temper by the researcher. The news of their marriage this time was said by many people that Zhang Zhongmou actually had a good impression of his subordinates' wives. The implication is that there is a suspicion of moral issues, and some people even directly said that he was the wife who took the lead.
Afterwards, the two came together because of love, but they also came together with each other's wounds. It turned out that Zhang Shufen's relationship with her ex-husband had long ceased, but she had delayed for more than ten years before she got a divorce. The same was true for Zhang Zhongmou. By the time of remarriage, he had been separated from his ex-wife for more than 30 years.
It can be imagined how much courage Zhang Zhongmou and Zhang Shufen needed to overcome how many imperfections they could get together. But their courage and overcoming are worth it, and this has brought them all to their success since then.
2009 financial crisis attacked, TSMC was on the verge of loss. Zhang Zhongmou returned to TSMC as CEO. In 2010, TSMC's operating income reached 90 billion. It is the most profitable company among the 1,300 listed companies in Taiwan.
56-year-old Zhang Zhongmou started his business and achieved such high results. However, this also stems from Zhang Zhongmou's accumulated work experience in world-class technology companies. It has laid a solid foundation for the future establishment of TSMC. This is not only a technical accumulation, but also provides valuable experience in company management.
Zhang Zhongmou, who is now 88 years old, often says that he still has a long golden age. Under his leadership, TSMC is not only the company that makes the most money in Taiwan, but also ranks the highest in Taiwan in annual R&D and investment. TSMC's customers have already included a large number of global technology leaders including Apple, , Qualcomm, , Huawei, etc. The market value exceeds 1 trillion yuan, and even exceeds , IBM. Once, in an interview with Japanese media, Zhang Zhongmou "bluntly stated" that mainland chip foundry technology is not yet in a climate, and it may take several years to reach TSMC's technical threshold.
56 started his business at the age of 56 and married his own secretary at the age of 70. Now the company's market value exceeds 1 trillion yuan. Although Zhang Zhongmou has achieved great success late, his achievements are already excellent enough.
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