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BEND, NOT BREAK
A Life in Two Worlds
This is the fascinating story of a woman whose courage and resilience took her from the horrors of Mao’s China to the top of the business world.
When Ping Fu was a child in China during the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s Red Guard forced her to stand on stage in front of hundreds of people with a heavy sign around her neck that branded her a counter-revolutionary and shout, “I am nobody. I am worse than nobody: I am dirt beneath your feet.”
Today that girl is somebody: the founder and CEO of a thriving global technology company, an Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, a member of President Obama’s innovation and entrepreneurship advisory council, and a proud mother.
Ping shares her remarkable journey from a childhood working at a state-run factory, suffering unspeakable abuse, to her exile from her homeland with just $80. We then follow her improbable rise from immigrant worker to software engineer, entrepreneur, and highly respected CEO. Her visionary leadership style and compassion for humanity helped her weather many setbacks— from her imprisonment in China for reporting on female infanticide to guiding her fledgling company through the recession.
BEND, NOT BREAK is a powerful testament to human resilience. With rich detail and literary style, this is a dazzling debut from a woman of unbreakable strength and indelible spirit. Ping Fu is the founder and CEO of Geomagic, a 3D software company. She earned an M.S. in computer science at the University of Illinois and worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she supervised Marc Andreessen's work on the Mosaic browser (which became Netscape). She is a member of President Obama’s National Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Today that girl is somebody: the founder and CEO of a thriving global technology company, an Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, a member of President Obama’s innovation and entrepreneurship advisory council, and a proud mother.
Ping shares her remarkable journey from a childhood working at a state-run factory, suffering unspeakable abuse, to her exile from her homeland with just $80. We then follow her improbable rise from immigrant worker to software engineer, entrepreneur, and highly respected CEO. Her visionary leadership style and compassion for humanity helped her weather many setbacks— from her imprisonment in China for reporting on female infanticide to guiding her fledgling company through the recession.
BEND, NOT BREAK is a powerful testament to human resilience. With rich detail and literary style, this is a dazzling debut from a woman of unbreakable strength and indelible spirit. Ping Fu is the founder and CEO of Geomagic, a 3D software company. She earned an M.S. in computer science at the University of Illinois and worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she supervised Marc Andreessen's work on the Mosaic browser (which became Netscape). She is a member of President Obama’s National Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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