Terry Gou

$9.58B
$32.7M (0.3%)
as of 04/29/25

About Terry Gou

Terry Gou is the founder of Hon Hai Precision, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer with over 40% market share, whose top customers include Apple.

He stepped down as the firm's chairman in 2019, after 45 years at the helm; he remains at the firm as a director.

Better known by its trade name, Foxconn, Hon Hai employs roughly a million people.

The company bought Japanese electronics maker Sharp and Nokia's mobile phone brand in 2016.

In 2019, he withdrew his bid to run for the 2020 presidential election, a few months after announcing his intention. Four years later he entered and withdrew from the race for a second time.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Taiwan, Province of China

Source of wealth

Electronics

Residence

Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China

Marital status

Widowed, Remarried

Birth date

10/18/50 (age 74)

Number of children

5

Education

Taipei University of Marine Technology

Self-made

self-made

Terry Gou’s fortune is worth

160K

troy ounces of gold

147K

median U.S. household

96K

median U.S. income

0.192%

U.S. credit card volume

0.038%

GDP of the United States

0.028%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Gou met with then-President Donald Trump in 2017 to discuss investing in the U.S., and Trump attended the ground-breaking for a factory in Wisconsin in 2018.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

TAIWAN | 3481-TW

Chimei Innolux Corp.

TAIPEI | 6589-TW

EirGenix

TAIWAN | 2317-TW

Hon Hai Precision Industries

TAIWAN | 2317-TW

Hon Hai Precision Industries

TOKYO | 6753-JP

Sharp

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