Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight and left to care for her younger sister amidst squalor and humiliation at the hands of Mao’s Red Guards. Told to leave the country in her mid-twenties following research into China’s nascent one-child policy, she went on to study computer science in the United States, work at the ground-breaking Bell Labs, run the team behind Netscape and ultimately found leading 3D software company Geomagic.