Tao sometimes jokes that having been born into a supposedly well-to-do family, he should have entered the world with a silver spoon in his mouth, but because of problems with the family business, it was only a plastic funnel.
民國 35 年出生的陶傳正，父親陶子厚是兩蔣時代以紡織起家的大企業家。文化大學英文系畢業後，身為獨子的陶傳正在當兵的那一年，才開始認真面對「接棒」這一件事。