In the 12 years that Startek has been in business, Hsu has insisted that it continue to pursue OCR research because he believes that researchers must be farsighted, accurately assessing people's needs a decade or two down the road. But when you get in early as a pioneer, you then have to wait for the market to mature.
而星友科技創立十二年來，一直堅持在辨識領域中鑽研，正因為許文星認為，研究者應有前瞻性思考，要對十年、二十年以後的人類需求有一個準確的評估，及早切入，成為先驅者，然後靜待市場成熟的時機來臨。