At the time, this was the largest aluminum threety printed object in the world. After demo day, did you raise more money? We did. And i think, in hind sight, like, no way would we have done that if we knew what it took on It was w 90 metings and six weeks, and right after demode, and you get one term sheets. So d you just send that like fed x overnight. Yess. I got ce days ag yet. Sos, it was quite impressive, just to show it was possible, when we could do it.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Ellis, co-founder of Relativity, to talk about why he chose 3D printing (5:00), reducing the ways things can go wrong (11:25), how it works (15:00), the cost difference vs traditional manufacturing (26:05), why Mars (30:10), leaving Blue Origin to start the company (40:15), raising money and getting into Y Combinator (46:25), manufacturing on Mars (52:45), selling investors on the idea (59:00), and the impending launch (1:05:30).
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