Name: Queen Ndlovu
Designation: CEO
Company: QP Drone
• What do you do every day?
Usually I wake up with a little prayer, study for my PHD degree between 5 and 7am and then take a 30min walk. I then prepare to go to the office until 6 to 7pm and then study for 2 to 3 hours and go back home.
• How did you get into the tech space?
I studied the future market and read books on successful start-up stories such as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs and thereafter decided to go to the Business School for Masters in Entrepreneurship in which one module was about technology and the other one was about Global Entrepreneurship. As a result I chose Drone Technology and subsequently went to Shenzhen, China for 6 months to learn more about the technology.
• What was the best advice anyone ever gave you?
“Just Start” (from my late grandmother) anything you envisage to do. What she meant just do it because if you start, you get motivated to finish unlike procrastination.
• What advise would you give to someone wanting to get into tech?
It is important to choose what you are passionate about and see what solutions you can create should you introduce your tech accordingly. Research, research and research and how are you going to solve the pain of the customers using the chosen tech
• What motivates you to get out of bed every day?
Making a significant difference to the world and young people in my own little way.
• What do you want to be when you grow up one day?
Save the planet and its people by making it sustainable and creating some wealth for my generation.
About The Author: Samantha
Samantha Perry is the owner and founder of SJ Perry PR, a small, independent agency that specialises in providing public relations and media relations services to small to medium-sized businesses. She recently served as the JHB Agency Lead for Irvine Partners, an integrated public relations and marketing agency. She has over 20 years' of experience writing for a range of media - print and online - mainly in the ICT sector including Computing SA (editor), ComputerWeek, and Brainstorm magazine (editor). In her capacity as a PR professional and consultant, she has and does work with a variety of companies including Google (South Africa & Nigeria), Salesforce, CLEVVA, Euphoria Telecom, Paymenow and Tiger Content (UK). She also has a Masters degree in ICT Policy & Regulation. She served on the IAB SA Marketing Council as the PR rep, has worked as an independent telecoms researcher for some of the analyst houses in that field and was regularly called upon to comment on telecoms issues in the press. Nowadays she can be found commenting on women in tech issues in the press and speaking at conferences on the subject and the issues women in the sector face.
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