Wow! Sukey has a fantastic history of entrepreneurship and I was blown away by her businesses. Having grown up in a small province in China as an only child, Sukey only arrived in Australia as a young adult. After finishing year 12, she went on to study Advertising but soon realised her heart wasn't set on working in marketing and advertising roles. She discussed the options with her parents and decided she wanted to go out and explore the world - and she ended up in Australia.

She arrived here not knowing anyone and started out in a 'homestay' in north Sydney with a lovely Italian woman who looked after her and a bunch of other students.

From there she ended up moving out with a friend to a tiny apartment in Chinatown where 8 of them shared a 2BR place. Then she moved to Bondi and joined a party house where she started to understand hospitality. She and her husband started Chefin - where you can hire a top chef to cook in your home - and built software to manage the process. They have now served more than 50,000 people with this service.

Umamya is her new baby - it's a robot (like a fridge) that will do the jobs of kitchen hands and actually cook meals. You just add the ingredients and then the machine prepares and cooks the food in about 90 seconds. She predicts that it will save 30% of the staff costs, and solve the staff shortage problem, in the hospitality industry.

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