An Engineer’s View of Entrepreneurship
Before building Innowave Tech, Jinsong worked on production lines and in engineering and quality leadership, often dealing with urgent operational problems. Sharing his journey with members of the Tsinghua Entrepreneur & Executive Club (TEEC), he connected that experience with the motivation behind his move into entrepreneurship: using technology to make work smarter and more balanced.
The exchange brought together TEEC members from around the world and founders in Singapore. Reflecting on the exchange, Jinsong traced his path from engineering into leadership and then entrepreneurship, connecting each stage with what technology could change for people facing industrial challenges.
His manufacturing background shaped his emphasis on customer value. An urgent engineering or quality problem needs a solution that people can use. For us, innovation has to meet that practical test: helping solve a problem that matters to the customer.
Four Priorities for Building a Company
His reflections centered on four themes, echoing insights shared by TEEC chairman Dr Liu Sheng. The first was direction: choosing the right track matters as much as the effort committed to it. Selecting the problem deserves attention before committing to execution.
The second was core competitiveness, grounded in innovation that creates real customer value. The third was the partner ecosystem, which Jinsong linked to the pace and potential scale of growth. What we build and the relationships through which we reach customers both matter.
The fourth was sustained effort over the long term. The priorities give us practical questions to return to: are we working on the right problem, creating value for customers, building the relationships needed to grow, and prepared to keep going?
Keeping Industrial Work at the Center
Our entrepreneurial journey connects manufacturing experience with customer value, partnerships, persistence and technical innovation. The ambition to make work smarter and more balanced remains the thread running from the production line to the company we are building.