A graduate of the foreign languages department at National Cheng Kung University, he was a vice president of marketing for a tech company and earning more than NT $ 80,000 per month by the time he was 36. But then he noticed that the manufacturing yields for his company's products were declining, and concluded that the company was losing its competitive edge.
成大外文系畢業的楊基寬，36 歲前是一家電腦公司的行銷副總，月薪八萬多元，擁有公司上市在望的股票分紅，管理幾十名員工，但他卻發現公司產品的不良率越來越高，競爭力出了問題。