The Robots That Go Where Humans Can't, with Jeffrey To

This week on the Ways to Wealth Podcast, Charlie speaks to Jeffrey To, founder of MĀKI, a New Zealand company that builds autonomous boats, submarines, and underwater robots to go where humans can't.Bored in his garage during lockdown, Jeffrey took a cheap fishing kit, turned it into a self-driving boat, and sent it out to scan his local lake. What it found stopped him cold: a 55-metre, star-shaped structure sitting on the lakebed that nobody could see from the surface and nobody could explain. That mystery, and the answer to it, accidentally launched a business now hired by councils, power companies, and industrial operators to map the things beneath our water.But Jeffrey's story didn't start with engineering. It started in Hong Kong, where he didn't do well at school, and a cultural exchange that landed him in a tiny New Zealand town of 3,000 people. To build his future, he and his now-wife saved 60% of their income before tax, working second jobs late into the night, going without food and petrol, eating dinner on the floor because they couldn't afford a table.This is a conversation about building things that don't exist yet, the discipline it takes to bet on yourself, and a hard-won philosophy on failure from a man who has learned that as long as you're still here, there's always tomorrow.Watch every episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast here: www.eccuity.com/podcastsLearn more about Jeffrey here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-to-637209a7/Learn more about Jeffrey's company here: https://www.maki.nz/#waystowealth #robotics #engineering #autonomousvehicles #startup #entrepreneurship #nzbusiness #innovation #investing #saving #environmental #technology #maki #wealthbuilding