Welcome to a new series where we look at big businesses and what led to their big break or failure..
ASML is the biggest European company you’ve never heard of and the Continent’s only true tech giant. But how did this seemingly anonymous Dutch business come to be the world’s biggest producer of key machinery used in printing semiconductors? It involves Americans, all conquering Japanese exporters, and rednecks beating the crap out of Toyotas with sledgehammers. Listen to the Turning Point and we’ll explain.
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Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.
With Brian Potter.
In partnership with the Library of Mistakes.
Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.
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