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TSMC Founder Morris Chang

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The podcast about great technology companies and the stories and places. No, you said technology. Now we definitely have a cold opening. Alright. I guess uh I really want us to be about technology companies again. Well, this is a technology company. It's a sign. Alright, here we go. Who got the truth? Is it you, is it you, is it you Who got the truth now?

Is it you, is it you, is it you Down. Another story Welcome to the spring twenty twenty five season of Acquired, the podcast about great companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.

I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts. Today we have something very special to share with you. After becoming obsessed with semiconductors from our T SMC episode four years ago. David and I wound our way through the rest of the industry, studying fabulous companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm. Architecture companies like Arm

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