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I work on 3D printing and I can tell you - 3D printing is profoundly impacting a variety of industries. It’s been amazing to see the growth and development in the past 3 years.

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Yeah, I think the thing with 3D printing is it's a powerful industrial technology, but the idea that every home would want a low cost 3D printer was badly wrong.

It's just not good enough yet. It just can't make enough products using a variety of materials, fast enough and with little user involvement. When a turn key solution is available where the average person just clicks to "print" a product, that equation changes.

I feel like this is a technology that isn't a consumer product until suddenly it is.

Check out Carbon3D and Velo3D.

Two companies I work with in the Bay Area who are changing the game.

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