The Man Behind the World’s Most Powerful Company

How Morris Chang built the most powerful company on earth. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for free for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Chapters: 0:00 Taiwan’s High-Stakes Bet 1:16 Growing Up in War-Torn China 1:55 A 50-Day Escape Through the Front Lines 2:14 Education, Ambition, and a Father’s Pressure 2:54 Leaving for America 4:21 Failure at MIT That Changed Everything 5:05 The Job Offer That Changed His Life 5:57 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant 7:00 The One-Dollar Decision 7:45 Learning Transistors the Hard Way 9:00 Opportunity at Texas Instruments 9:49 The End of the CEO Dream 10:11 The Idea That Changed Everything 10:56 The Future Was in Asia 11:52 Founding TSMC 12:39 Jensen Huang and NVIDIA 13:32 TSMC Becomes Indispensable Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Morris Chang image: 總統府, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Texas Instruments building sign: Texas Instruments, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer: Henry Moses, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Texas Instruments North Campus: Texas Instruments, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Morris Chang’s Stanford interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEh3ZgbvBrE Stanford University: Pere Joan, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Texas Instruments TI-30 electronic calculator: Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Texas Instruments Series 500 Men's Digital Quartz Watch: Joe Haupt from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Texas Instruments SpeakSpell: © Bill Bertram 2006, CC-BY-2.5 via Wikimedia Commons Trump Tower: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ITRI campus: Ysh1005, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Intel building: Sixflashphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Final Morris Chang photo: 總統府, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons