Who is ping fu

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She ended up in the US where she studied computer science and worked in software companies before starting Geomagic , a 3D software development company.

I grew up during the Cultural Revolution, so I lived through that chaotic period during my formative years. It's a time of your life which is supposed to be carefree but it was complete chaos. I didn't get as good an education or the care that everybody else did, but I was also able to practice a lot of independence. I developed a very strong self-learning skill, and being deprived from real study gave me a real urge to want to learn.

It wasn't like "you get good grades so go to school every day", instead I couldn't go to school and that brought the desire to learn. After the Cultural Revolution I went to college. I studied chinese literature and in my senior year I did some research on policy, I was going to do it as thesis, and when I was researching this I discovered widespread infanticide in the countryside.

I wrote what I saw, gave it to my teacher and suddenly my thesis was submitted to the communist party. I was in trouble. I was put in jail and that was when I knew I had to leave [China]. Your personal journey and the strategies you used to turn adversity into success were important for all to hear and truly resonated with our members.

Ping was wonderful — she was received very favorably by the audience and interacted well with the other speakers, organizers and attendees alike. It was our privilege to have her attend. The lessons Ping Fu has so artfully accumulated are inspiring, heartening, educating, and entertaining. Born in Maoist China, Ping fled a life of poverty to eventually co-found Geomagic, a revolutionary 3D software company. She draws upon her own remarkable journey to highlight the importance of resilience in life and in the cutthroat world of start-ups.