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.
Uni, business, studies, networking- like clockwork, life never seems to stop moving. Rushing through breakfast to get to lectures on time, quick...
What's in it for the other person? If you look at everything from this perspective, you can get anything you want in life.
When are you going to apply for that grant? When are you going to start your assignment? When are you going to start your advertising campaign? When are...
One day, as if overnight, all the airport check-in people and desks disappeared. In their place appeared computerised self-tagging stations. Across the...
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Spoke at a Lenovo event by myself for 12 minutes and then on a panel with Ashton Kutcher. Met with Hollywood’s Steve Jobs and had a yarn about...
How to create a Sandbox Global Summit Carefully select over 4 years, a group of 650 under-30 year-olds from around the world and cultivate...
A lot of successful entrepreneurs dropped out of school (Richard Branson) or university (Bill Gates). But Ogilvy, who went on to become a famous ad...
I’m fortunate to be invited all around the world to deliver speeches. In February, I was invited to the MBN Y Forum in Seoul, South Korea for a...
When I was 17, I came 3rd in an international Japanese speaking contest. However, I don’t do anything about my Japanese studies now. The year prior, I got...
