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It's not very surprising they'd be distant relatives, as a matter of odds. Taiwan is a small place and Taiwanese Han people came from a relatively non-diverse
by dchftcs 3y ago
It's not very surprising they'd be distant relatives, as a matter of odds.
Taiwan is a small place and Taiwanese Han people came from a relatively non-diverse group of immigrants (e.g. largely Hokkien). For these two to have got a good education and risen to the top like this as immigrants to the US, likelier than not they were from educated or rich families.
If you filter for Taiwanese families educated or rich during the years they were born, the scope would probably have been somewhat small and covered an even smaller range of bloodlines, possibly even all somewhat related to a handful of historical clans.
The degree of separation between people like them from a small geographical region tends to be fairly small in general.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoMaybe the bigger surprise is that both companies are led by Taiwanese Americans. What's the story behind the semiconductor industry being centered at Taiwan of all places?
- claritise 3y agoMostly government incentives... the taiwanese government had amazing foresight when most other countries didn't and was well positioned to attract their nationals back from the USA (at the time intel / TI veterans) to build out taiwain's hardware manufacturing sector.. which eventually led to the founding of TSMC.. and the rest is history. Right time and place, but more importantly, a government with amazing judgement and foresight.