5 Year Frontier

#14: 3D printing breakthroughs, AI designed products, mass customization, spare body parts, dismantling global trade, IP piracy, and the future of production w/ Carbon Co-founder Philip DeSimone

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The future of 3D printing. In it we cover mass customization at scale, computer-led design, creating the un-makable, printing body parts and food, rethinking global trade, and the future of product design and production.

Philip DeSimone, co-founder of Carbon. Headquartered in California and serving customers in 17 countries from Adidas to Ford, Carbon is a 3D printing technology company helping businesses develop better products and bring them to market in less time. Carbon is a vertically integrated organization developing 3D printer hardware, advancing material science inputs, and designing the software to make it all work seamlessly. With over 300 patents filed, Carbon has raised $680M from the likes of Sequoia, Temasek, Adidas, BMW, and Google. Coming up to 12 years since co-founding Carbon, Phil leads Carbon’s go-to-market strategy and manages their most strategic partnerships and customers.

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