Go out and make those connections, meet people, have conversations.
It may land you a dream job. My friend got an engineering internship in China by playing cards with a kid on a plane!
It may land you funding. It may get you invited along to a fabulous experience. Or an invitation to meet someone amazing. Or it may just give you an idea or insight that gives you a new perspective on your life.
Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.
I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.
Woody Allen once said that "eighty percent of success is showing up." To me, that means, you go to the meeting about the project. You're there...
"Good Weekend" magazine (included every Saturday in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers) was interested in what I was up to, so they...
I was named an Asian Society Game Changer Award winner alongside architect IM Pei (Lifetime Achievement Award), movie director Zhang Yimou, and the...
On 17 May this year, over two months after I'd submitted my application, I received an exciting email in my inbox. "Congratulations! You have been...
"We would have bought your company." "You just got lucky because it was the right time for that kind of thing." "All the elements in the industry were...
When I was younger, we couldn't afford a piano at home, so my mum would take me to my piano teacher's house each day to practise for an hour. I...
My company, aubot, was recently invited to go to Queensland for 6 months, as part of Advance Queensland's Hot Desq program, to inspire local...
Spoke about my robotic arm at the G20 Brisbane Global Cafe.
Great to go back to San Francisco in August for our Singularity University’s Graduate Studies Program Reunion. So proud of my classmates, their...
What's in it for the other person? If you look at everything from this perspective, you can get anything you want in life.
