My Influences
I've moved around a lot growing up. Places where I've lived:
- Born in Mountain View, CA
- Milpitas, CA (5 years)
- Oregon (1 year)
- Taiwan (2 years)
- Oregon (1 year)
- Shanghai (8 years)
- Massachusetts (2 years)
- Michigan (3 years)
- Nevada (1 year)
- Milpitas, CA (1 year)
- I currently live in San Francisco, CA (1 year)
These moves taught me adaptability, resilience, and open-mindedness.
One of my biggest inspirations is my father, who was forced to spend his teenage years manually farming due to China's Cultural Revolution. He carried buckets of water on his shoulders to his family everyday and has multiple scars on his hands from using farming scythes. He never got the chance to finish middle or high school. Through extreme grit, he eventually made it to the USA, studied electrical engineering, dropped out of his PhD, and moved to Silicon Valley to contribute to the semiconductor and computing industry. Against all odds, he's now the CEO of a public semiconductor company.
He's been an inspiration for my interest in deep tech, my ambition for advancing humanity, and the belief that anything is possible.
- Elon Musk
- The many other people I've met in my life.