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(NASDAQ:AMD) CEO Lisa Su once joked that her parents were almost disappointed when she chose the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because her mother had hoped she would become a concert pianist instead.
Su Recalls Parents’ Exacting Standards Su made the comment in a 2020 interview with Austin Woman’s Jenny Hoff, reflecting on a childhood in a Taiwanese American immigrant household where achievement was expected and excuses did not travel far.
She said her parents pushed her to study hard, work hard and "always have to strive to be the best." "My big failure to them was I went to Chinese school as a kid and my Chinese handwriting was horrible," Su said, laughing.
"I always got a C in handwriting and it drove them crazy." When Su later chose MIT, one of the world’s top engineering schools, Austin Woman wrote that her parents were nearly as disappointed as they had been over the handwriting grade.
