
Emily Ma
Food Systems Lead
X, the moonshot factory
Mountain View, CA USA
“Be curious and be awed by how amazing the world is. When we see the world through the lens of curiosity and awe, it’s so much more beautiful.”
X, the moonshot factory
Mountain View, CA USA
“Be curious and be awed by how amazing the world is. When we see the world through the lens of curiosity and awe, it’s so much more beautiful.”
Food Systems Lead
I launch moonshot technologies to make the world a better place.
I make myself a cup of rooibos tea at 6am and spend a few hours working through deep thinking work, reading and reviewing everything from the news and scientific papers to engineering documents from my colleagues. The bulk of my day afterwards, I’m either meeting with people in person or virtually, moving our work along, or when it gets really fun, I’m in the field digging through someone else’s trash to learn more about how we can prevent it!
Here's the first step for everyone
Go be audacious. Do something hard, something that you are going to get laughed at but you believe in enough that it doesn’t matter. Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they get angry at you, and then you win.” Find ways to exercise courage—regardless of your moonshot, personal or professional, you have to develop your courage muscle!
"I do not have what it takes to break through."
Computer science from new perspectives