Book description
Bend, Not Break chronicles Ping Fu's journey from China's work
camps to top CEO.
'Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking. It
suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back
even from the most difficult times' -Ping Fu's Shanghai papa
Ping Fu is one of the few women running a tech company in the US.
But her story begins long before.
Born on the eve of China's Cultural Revolution, she was separated
from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and
humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the vindictive
teenagers of Mao's Red Guard. At twenty-five she escaped to the United
States; her only resources were in traveller's checks and three
phrases of English: Thank you, hello, and help.
Yet Ping persevered. Within a year she had completed her English
qualifications and started studying computer programming, rising to
run the team behind Netscape. She then founded Geomagic, a company
that has literally reshaped the world, from personalizing prosthetic
limbs to repairing NASA spaceships.
Bend, Not Break tells the incredible personal story of a
journey from imprisonment to freedom, from Mao's China to technology
start-ups. It is a tribute to one woman's courage in the face of
cruelty, and a valuable lesson on the enduring power of resilience.
Ping Fu is President and CEO of Geomagic, Inc. A survivor of
China's Cultural Revolution, she was imprisoned for her reporting on
female infanticide under China's one-child policy and deported to the
USA. Fu is one of the few women CEOs in technology and was named the
2005 "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Inc. Magazine. She is a
member of President Obama's National Council on Innovation and
Entrepreneurship and an adjunct professor in computer science at Duke University.
Ping Fu
is President and CEO of Geomagic, Inc. A survivor of China's Cultural
Revolution, she was imprisoned for her reporting on female infanticide
under China's one-child policy and deported to the USA. Fu is one of the
few women CEOs in technology and was named the 2005 "Entrepreneur
of the Year" by Inc. Magazine. She is a member of President Obama's
National Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and an adjunct
professor in computer science at Duke University.
