I finally graduated! Stoked to give the valedictory speech at my graduation. I received a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Melbourne. The first pic is of me and my mum, and the second is of a lectern towering before me!
Spoke in Hong Kong at the the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) on 9 July. The WAGGGS is the largest voluntary organisation dedicated to girls and young women. They consist of ten million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from 145 countries across the world, and their international conference happens every three years. My speech was live-translated into 7 languages simultaneously!
Hello! It's been ages since I blogged here. More recently, I've been blogging at the 2Mar Robotics Blog.
What I say is important in my life = how I actually live my life
"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 just lining up when you started your company".
If a project is successful, in hindsight, it was very obviously the right thing to do.
If McKinsey buys your company, JP Morgan, in hindsight says, "we would have bought your company. We would have paid more for it."
A successful acquisition makes the transaction seem like a good idea, in hindsight.
If a company is successful, people analyse it for the timing, industry, other external factors. But that's just one side of the equation. The other side is a small team of people, building knowledge in an industry, establishing a solid reputation, accumulating expertise at their jobs; they are biding their time, and slowly working towards creating a market that is receptive to their product. When the market reaches a tipping point, they are ready for that as well. And they ride that wave to success.
And other people will look back and say, "weren't they lucky to be in that industry at the time?"
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.
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