Foxconn founder spotted working as chauffeur for rich golf lady

The founder of Foxconn, top iPhone manufacturer, evidently paid for and accompanied a rich woman named Hsieh on car rides between golf clubs and mansions more than a dozen times over an 11-month period, according to Next Apple's rigorous paparazzi work. Next Apple is the spiritual successor to the Hong Kong-based Apple Daily in Taiwan after the arrest of the tabloid's founder and the Apple Daily's death amid Hong Kong's failure to defend itself as an autonomous city.

Terry Guo, the 75-year-old factory tycoon who is famous for making Donald Trump look stupid, became a prominent regular at golf clubs after stepping down as Foxconn CEO and after a series of embarrassing attempts to become Taiwan’s president.

In November 2024, Guo gave a caddy NT$500k (about US$15k at the time of the award) after making a hole-in-one (getting the ball in the hole in one shot), Mirror Media, another outlet from the former Apple Daily orbit with a splash of political involvement, reported. And apparently, Guo found being a caddy quite rewarding and decided to become one.

Guo mostly provided their luxury caddy services in Daxi, a small town whose name is similar to another town that is famous for strawberries, and incidentally is the town where Guo lives. But the car rides also extended to high-end areas in Taipei to meet the client's needs, according to Next Apple's surveillance reporting. It also mentions that Hsieh provided emotional payments like cheering for Guo's sportspersonship, and putting sunscreen on Guo, which is BobaChair's educated guess on how bespoke caddies are usually paid.

Guo is famous for pivoting in many areas of life. They were known for having grown up in a temple, working as a salesperson, then founding Foxconn partly with their mother's angel investment of NT$100k, one-fifth of what they would later pay the caddy for the hole-in-one in one second.

Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai in Taiwan, started as a plastics manufacturer in Taiwan in 1974, went on to become one of Apple's most prominent partners. It's also probably the world’s most infamous factory operator, associated with countless employee suicides in China due to harsh working conditions, which have been widely documented by outlets such as the BBC.

The financial success of Foxconn didn't stop Guo from pivoting. This time, it was political. Spoiler alert: it was tragically humiliating.

In 2018, Guo said there was no “one-in-a-million” chance they would run for president, according to LTN, a pro-Independence Taiwanese outlet. In 2019, they announced a bid for the pro-China KMT’s nomination for president of Taiwan. They lost to a populist mayor who was convicted of negligent manslaughter in 2004 and who was recalled as mayor by local voters in 2020. Guo was so pissed they left the KMT immediately.

The drama peaked in 2023 as the 2024 presidential election was heating up in Taiwan. What Guo managed to achieve in half a year was so beautifully confusing that it deserved to be dumped into one paragraph:

In June 2023, the then-leader of the TPP, Taiwan's third-biggest party, which holds a very vague position toward China, complained that Guo wanted to “merge with and acquire the TPP” and it "scared everyone", according to CNA, Taiwan's state media. After failing to acquire the TPP, Guo made another bid for the KMT’s nomination and lost again to another KMT mayor who called Theodore Roosevelt an "old farmer". Later, Guo announced that they would run for president as an independent, and their VP pick was an actress/spiritual writer/"elite coach" (according to their own website), who played a presidential candidate on a TV show loosely based on the DPP, Taiwan’s current ruling party, which is pro-ROC/Taiwan.

In November 2023, Guo announced their withdrawal from the election.

As Foxconn made exactly US$66.66b in the first quarter of 2026, Guo is apparently enjoying their caddy/chauffeur career. What a life.

p.s. to be fair guo donated one of the best hospitals in taiwan but we think this does not match the article's voice

p.p.s. this is a disclaimer that we acknowledge they spent a fraction of the proceeds of their capitalist exploitation on a nice thing

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