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How the Foxconn Board Built an Apple Supply Chain Empire
Foxconn assembles roughly 70 percent of the world's iPhones, but its rise from a small plastics maker in Taiwan to a $140 billion manufacturing colossus was a deliberate board-level bet on one customer: Apple. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack how the Foxconn board structured its entire business around Apple's supply chain demands — building giant campuses in Shenzhen and Zhengzhou, deploying a million workers, and managing razor-thin margins of around 2 percent. They explore the risks of customer concentration, the brutal factory conditions that drew global scrutiny, and the…
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