HTC’s founder Wang Xuehong has a halo since she was born. Her father is Wang Yongqing, the “god of management” in Taiwan, and founded the Formosa Plastics Empire. Because she has never played according to common sense, she is called the most rebellious child of the Wang family by

is at its peak and declines, and the moon is at its peak. HTC, which was once very popular, did not escape this curse.

HTC founder Wang Xuehong has a halo since she was born. Her father is Wang Yongqing, the "god of business" in Taiwan, and founded the Formosa Plastics Empire.

But she never obeyed fate's arrangements. She was admitted to the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley for 3 weeks, and decisively transferred to the Department of Economics. Because she has never played according to common sense, she is called the most rebellious child of the Wang family by the outside world.

Wang Xuehong's first career

A few years after she graduated, she took the house as collateral, borrowed 5 million from the bank, bought VIA, a chip company on the verge of bankruptcy in Silicon Valley, and became an competitor of Intel.

In order to fight against its powerful competitors, Wang Xuehong moved the company back to Taiwan, and then relied on Compaq Computer's order to develop rapidly. By 1999, the global chipset market share reached 70%. In the same year, VIA was listed in Taiwan; in 2000, VIA's stock price surged to NT$629, becoming the most expensive stock in the Taiwan market, which is unlimitedly glorious.

But the big tree attracts wind and has been subject to patent wars initiated by Intel . VIA often releases new products and will be infringed by Intel, causing VIA's stock price to fall again and again. For this reason, everyone concluded that Wang Xuehong and her investors paid a price of up to 220 billion yuan.

HTC's rise

In 1997, she pulled Zhuo Huotu and Zhou Yongming to reopen the battlefield and jointly founded Hongda Electronics, which was later called "ham sausage".

In 2000, the company cooperated with Combat to launch PDA, which is a handheld computer, which was very successful, making HTC quickly become the world's largest PDA foundry company . In the second year of the birth of the iPhone, HTC took over the big tree of Google , and cooperated with Google to launch the world's first Android phone: HTC Dream G1, which fired the first shot in the Android camp.

In 2010, HTC's smartphone shipments were 24.6 million units, which became 43 million units a year later, with a global market share of up to 15%, which once represented the Android camp to compete with Apple. In April 2011, HTC's market value soared to US$31.9 billion, and was hailed as the "stock king" by Taiwanese people, and its stock price exceeded that of mobile phone giant Nokia .

In the same year, Wang Xuehong and her husband Chen Wenqi won the "richest man in Taiwan", surpassing their father Wang Yongqing, and also slashed the former richest man Guo Taiming to the top.

But the good times didn't last long. Their business empires rose faster and collapsed faster. According to HTC's fourth quarter financial report for 2017, the company's net loss in the fourth quarter was NT$9.8 billion, NT$3, equivalent to approximately US$337 million, which is the 11th consecutive quarter of losses. Since the second quarter of 2015, HTC has lost NT$46.2 billion in total. Later, more than 2,300 employees have been laid off worldwide, and 15% of the company's employees were fired at once.

HTC's decline

So why did the opponents that once made Apple and Samsung look at him suddenly decline at their peak?

In fact, when HTC first rose, it was entirely relied on VIA to transfusion blood, so HTC had already penetrated into the patent war between VIA and Intel at the beginning. Over time, HTC would naturally be dragged down. In addition, HTC attaches the most importance to the market is the US market, with a market share of 25% at one time. Later, it was also attacked by Apple's patent in the United States, causing serious business losses of .

is precisely because he is optimistic about the US market and gave up the big cake of the mainland market. He obviously made the wrong piece. At that time, , Xiaomi , BBK, Huawei, etc. had not yet entered the Android field, which was equivalent to HTC missing a huge market without competitors. The current mobile phone market is the best proof.

Furthermore, HTC's market positioning is not accurate enough. Wang Xuehong has always believed that consumers are interested in HTC's brand, so they are unwilling to put down their shelves and make low-end products, but high-end products are inferior to Apple and Samsung, and their market share is slid again and again. In September 2017, Wang Xuehong was forced to sell some of HTC's core assets to Google for US$1.1 billion.

Although Wang Xuehong is still working hard for it, she was born in 1958 and is already 60 years old, and she is inevitably unable to help herself. For HTC, we only see its once glorious back.