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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Broadcom Industry: Semiconductors

The quietest trillion-dollar company in the world answers to a man who buys businesses the way others buy groceries. Hock Tan built Broadcom through serial acquisition, crowned by the US $ 69bn VMware deal he digested with characteristic ruthlessness, and then landed the prize of the AI era, a contract to design custom accelerator chips for OpenAI itself. Born in Penang, educated at MIT on scholarship and allergic to the conference circuit, Hock runs one of technology’ s most disciplined profit machines, cutting what does not compound and pricing what does. He takes almost all his pay in stock, a wager on himself that has made him one of America’ s best-paid executives and his shareholders quietly wealthy. They have learnt to stop asking questions and simply hold on.

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