| Immigrant entrepreneur: | Yuting Su |
| Company: | Thinker-Tinker |
| Place of birth: | Taiwan |
| Employees: | 5 |
Show notes
Yuting grew up in Taiwan and she never imagined living in the States. Her dad came out to States to get his master’s degree when she was 4 years old and she thought she would do the same.
She came to the States to study on a master’s program and her plan was to leave back to Taiwan after graduating. But after launching a prototype during her thesis at University of Southern California, the product took off.
She launched the product Octobo when she was 28 years and pregnant! Octobo is a big fluffy octopus that is an electronic educational device for kids. It is the world’s first soft robot that teaches ABC’s, spelling, rhythm, and the foundations for STEM education.
Yuting is inspirational and provides so much valuable advice in this chat!
Quotes by Yuting
I would recommend to give Techstars program a try.
Try a lot of things and fail fast.
I can’t remember how many times we’ve failed.
We learn a lot through failure.
Keep trying.
As long as you fail fast, and you realize what’s not working and you adjust your gear right after, it’s all worth it.
Learning when to stop is very important.
Especially as an entrepreneur, a lot of time we do things that we are passionate about and it’s hard to let go.
I didn’t come to the States because I knew that I wanted to start a company here.
I want to do something different and America just happens to be the best place for what I’m passionate about and to do what I wanted to do.
Being a parent taught me to be efficient with time.
I see a lot of people that have a lot of great ideas but they are trapped by their ideas. They don’t know which one to pick.
