How to be a technology innovator: Meredith Perry at TEDxNashville

Meredith Perry is the Founder and CEO of uBeam, a company that hopes to bring space age wireless charging technology to your cell phone and other wireless devices. Meredith graduated from the University of Pennsylvania this past May after studying rocks, of all things. Her paleobiology degree was put to good use while researching astrobiology at NASA, landing her a position as a NASA student ambassador. But inventing turned out to be Meredith's passion, creating a device that won Penn's student invention competition and propelling her into the world of business and tech. Meredith's prowess was recently acknowledged, joining Mark Zuckerberg and LeBron James and others on the coveted Forbes' "30 under 30" future leaders list. Somewhere along the way, Meredith spent some time in zero gravity, performing experiments on NASA's "vomit comet".


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[ThorTheSnail]

You're so damn brilliant. I'm glad I got to see this. Don't let the bastards grind you down!

[DannyBoy443]

Smart and hot. And I'm not even into blondes. Great future ahead of her. Wish I could invest in her.

[Almost Cat]

Kickass.

[farouqnimer]

wow crazy stuff, thanks for sharing

[KilluminatiATYB]

Amazing.



[MegaAstrodude]

@1:32,

Probably not from a financial perspective if it would cost a lot of money to prototype the film. I don't know the conditions necessary to get the ideal mixture though. Umbrellas protect clothes, bags, books, and lots of other things besides hair.

[Hayashi Sakawa]

terrible superimpose (=transcript)... is it machine-made, automatically-done, heartless work?

[MegaAstrodude]

Thanks for the advice. The biggest obstacle is that I'll be in school at least until I'm 26 so I'm working with my spare time. I'm getting an engineering degree though so that might help.

[DannyBoy443]

When I was 23 I started my first dot com, and now we're reinventing/pivoting the company and now at 27/28 I'm an inventor and investor. So I can tell you, define yourself as a designer. first then an investor. There are alot of problem to be solved.