Adapting To Hard Times

Ping Fu, chief strategy officer at 3D Systems and author of the book "Bend, Not Break" talks about surviving the Cultural Revolution in China, and starting afresh in the US with little money and speaking little English. Upon a friend's recommendation, the Chinese American entrepreneur studied computer science, and while working for the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), she supervised Marc Andreessen on the Mosaic project before he founded Netscape. Ping started a 3D modelling software company named Geomagic with her then husband, and the company was subsequently sold to 3D Systems. Ping has received numerous awards for her accomplishments. Fast Company has named her Fast 50 winner in 2004.