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"Bamboo is flexible, bending with the breeze but never breaking, with the capacity of adapting to any circumstances. It implies resilience, and therefore we have the capability to bounce back even from the most difficult times.... Your potential to prosper depends, in the long run, on your frame of mind to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with elegance, adding forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying peaceful inwardly." (Ping Fu's "Shanghai Papa") Ping Fu is aware what it's like to be considered a child soldier, a manufacturer worker, and a politics prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the offense of being created into a well-educated family. To be deported with hardly enough money for a aircraft ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and college student. Ping Fu also is aware what it's like to be considered a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine's Business owner of the entire year. To be always a friend and coach to some of the best-known names in technicalnology. To develop some of the coolest services on the globe. To give speeches that motivate huge crowds. To meet up and advise the chief executive of the United States. It sounds too unbelievable for fiction, but this is the true story of any life in two worlds. Created on the eve of China's Cultural Trend, Ping was separated from her family at age eight. She was raised fighting appetite and humiliation and shielding her more radiant sister from the young adults in Mao's Red Safeguard. At 25, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $80 in traveler's checks and three phrases of British: 'thank you', 'hello', and 'help'. Yet Ping persevered, and the hard-won lessons of her years as a child led her to success in her new homeland. Aided by her well-honed survival intuition, a few friends, and the kindness of strangers, she grew into someone she never thought she'd be - a solid, independent, entrepreneurial innovator. A love of problem-solving led her to computer research, and Ping became area of the team that created NCSA Mosaic, which became Netscape, the Web browser that permanently changed how exactly we gain access to information. She then began a company, Geomagic, that has practically reshaped the entire world, from personalizing prosthetic limbs to repairing NASA spaceships. Flex, Not Period of time depicts a quest from imprisonment to flexibility, and from the dogmatic anti-capitalism of Mao's China to the high-stakes, take-no-prisoners world of technology start-ups in the United States. It is a tribute to 1 woman's courage in the face of cruelty and a very important lessons on the enduring electricity of resilience.
