Cher Wang co-founded the Taiwanese smartphone-maker High Tech Computer (HTC) with her husband Wen-Chi Chen in 1997. Despite coming from a wealthy background, Wang is credited as being one of the world’s richest self-made billionaires. She has an estimated wealth of US$8.8 billion (around £5.5 billion) according to the latest Forbes report in May 2011, and according to the Forbes rich list, Cher Wang and her husband are Taiwan’s richest people.
Cher Wang (birth name Hsiueh-Hong Wang) was born on 14 September 1958 in Taipei, Taiwan. She was one of seven children raised by mother Wang Yang-Jiao, her father’s second wife (altogether her father had nine children by three wives).
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