Tim Culpan from Bloomberg in Taipei joined us to discuss the Foxconn Group and how the company rose from a plastic injection moulding company to the largest contract manufacturing company building Apple iPhones and SoftBank Pepper robots. In this conversation, Tim provided an in-depth analysis of Foxconn from its corporate structure to the business units and intellectual property in automation, robotics and display screens that grow the revenues and profits of the company. We also discussed the scale in which a company such as Xiaomi can approach Foxconn for contract manufacturing and discussed whether Foxconn has the capability to deliver a car in the near future.



Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with timestamps included):

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