Wang at the company's annual meeting to challenge jobs. Jobs has died, and the battle between HTC and Apple is far from over.
Rebellious, forthright Wang is the "alien" of the business world. She and her father Wang Yung-ching character most like, but do not want to join the father's kingdom, she is a "strong woman" but also know the full authority; she was so suspicious of religion, and now the core executives are religious believers.
At the beginning of March 2012, Forbes ' global Rich List, 54-Year-old Wang and her husband Chen wealth of 4 billion U.S. dollars, is Taiwan's fourth richest.
On the list a year ago, their net worth was 6http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/19203.html ">8 billion, replacing Mr Gou as the new richest man in Taiwan." Two months later, the Forbes "Taiwan 40 Rich List" alone, their assets increased to 8.8 billion U.S. dollars (about 56 billion yuan), the heyday.
As the Wang of the global IT community, in the past year, the company's HTC (HTC) firm's share price climbed sharply, with its market capitalisation at once surpassing Nokia, then blew, shrinking more than half and sitting on the "roller coaster"; In the mobile phone market, HTC beat Apple in the third quarter to stand on top of North American smartphone sales, But the lawsuit was convicted of infringing Apple's patents.
Wang has been a man of relish ever since he made his debut in the business world. She is the daughter of Wang Yung-ching, founder of Formosa Plastics Group, known as the "God of operation in Taiwan" but not in the traditional sense of the "Fu II"-she rebellious character, not into the family business of the father, more than 20 years ago, the mother gave her house mortgage 5 million NT start a business.
An entrepreneur crying on a plane
She felt strange when she saw the news. At that time, the stewardess recognized her, and once did not want to give her the newspaper, lest her mood be affected. But Wang insisted on watching.
Since the beginning of the venture, the criticism and pressure around Wang have been there. Zhengzhaoyi, executive director of Goldman Sachs, told reporters that Wang "always chose to walk a less lonely Road", which is Wang often not understood at that time, but was described as "a way out" of the main reason.
Wang had been accused by rival companies and cried, but also because the performance is too poor to hide, but now she often said when they are not happy, can "instantly handle mood." With Wang the same year, from childhood to play big cousin Gao Yingcong Evaluation said: "She learned humility." ”
Taiwan's first listed network company group of Friends at the end of 2003 sued King Snow under the red Flag Granville Electronics A staff member, the indictment said the staff in order to steal the research and development results, to the friends to work, and then back to Granville Sheng reinstated. Wang was returning to Taiwan from Beijing. When she saw the news on the plane returning to Taiwan in Hong Kong, she thought it was incredible. At that time, the stewardess recognized her, and once did not want to give her the newspaper, lest her mood be affected. But Wang insisted on watching, then burst into tears.
When she got off the plane, she went with her husband, Chen, to the pastor of the church director of Liu Qunmao in Taipei's Vaseline. Wang the grievances, discontent and anger of full to the priest. "But she will not be struck by it." "Gao Yingcong said.
From scratch, she built two Taiwanese "shares"--Granville Electronics and HTC. She likes to "jump to the big game", such as when Granville and Intel First World War fame, and then confrontation with Apple, two years ago at the company's year-end party, Wang blushes to challenge jobs.
Her character developed from childhood. In the summer of 1981, Wang obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of Berkeley. Wang Yung-ching wanted to get her back to the stage to work, and advised her to start at the bottom. But Wang is determined to go to the second sister Wang Sheling of the public computer, finished is 7 years, until 1988 founded Granville Electronics.
At that time Wang to sell a few more computers, often a person dragged a large table, rent a booth everywhere to sell. Once Wang received a 700,000 dollar Spanish order, very excited. The result was cheated. She flew alone to Spain, spent six months in Barcelona, and hired bodyguards to recover the debt, but eventually failed to get the money back. But this trip to Europe has made Wang a reputation for mass-market computers in the European market.
The second setback for Wang was "suppressed" by Intel. Granville's chip in 1999, in succession for IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other giants used, and Intel has sacrificed a tort strategy. Granville and Intel Since then began a lengthy lawsuit, during which Granville shares plunged, the market value shrank by more than 60%, and attracted shareholder abuse, some employees have fled. It was not until 2003 that the two sides reached a 10-year interactive licensing agreement that ended the "shrimp against the Whale" battle.
When the media reported Wang, Wang's first reaction was to worry about whether his father would be disgraced, in addition to the church's reputation. 2006 she came out of the haze, become low-key, willing to accept outside criticism humbly.
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Wang gives the impression of loud, hearty laughter, a straightforward character and a reluctance to be controlled by others. Gao Yingcong said: "Wang is Wang Yung-ching several children most like him, even walk, speech charm are like." "But in management style, unlike the father's centralized style of leadership, she prefers to be fully empowered." The quality she learned from her father was rigorous and diligent--Wang Yung-ching asked all his children to go from high school to university, each week must write a letter home and "cannot write chronological."