Samuel Gong is Ceo and Founder of Real Graphene USA. Ever since Samuel Gong was born in Torrance, LA, engineering has always been a passion. His first patent in wireless energy transmission was filed in 2010 and later founded a successful business. Samuel then began researching graphene during his studies in UC Berkeley and later used his knowledge to optimize the applications and production of graphene. After several years of success, he founded Real Graphene bringing future battery technology to the present.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
I take a little bit from each of these personalities. But none specific.
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Obviously it was getting capital but I think that’s always a problem for everybody. But one of the biggest hurdles for me especially as an engineering background is getting people to believe in this technology. When I tell them about graphene and how graphene can affect batteries people are mostly, I would say 90% of the time the reaction is disbelief. So, telling them that this technology is here now has been one of the biggest hurdles for us”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Book by Luo GuanzhongFavourite Quote:
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Bruce Lee
Recommended Online Resources:
YouTube Reviews – YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“making a plan, having a plan, being ready to throw away the plan and create a new one, to fill in other plans into your current plan and just being able to adjust… Just been able to learn and adapt to the current situation… So gut feeling, adaptability and been able to perceive and internalise what you are perceiving around you”…[Listen for More]
More About Samuel Gong:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford
Other Quotes From the Chat with Samuel Gong:
- “even though China might be easier to start-up because it’s cheaper there you have to anticipate the language barrier, you have to anticipate the time difference and that the communication is definitely going to be restrictive. So, getting someone who knows the ins and outs of the industry to find partners to manufacture or develop is very, very critical”
- “I think persistence, adaptability and I feel like innovation, those three have been really key to success”
- “I feel like even if you’re idea is sort of bad if you are persistent then you can still be successful to some degree”
- “when people think of persistence, they think of doing the same thing and just doing it for a long period of time. And I want to correct that and say you also have to be adaptable because the truth is especially in the technology field the market changes and it changes a whole lot”
- “we have made many business plans and engineering plans. And we have been having to update those plans or change them slightly every month or so and once in a while we do have to change course. So be persistent but don’t mistake persistence with not being adaptable”
- “you should be able to adapt and you should be able to be willing to bend. You should be able to take your perception everything around you and integrate it into yourself to adjust or adapt to the situation”
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