Roxanne Jones is the co-founder of relativity, a company that uses 3D printing to build rockets. She says she was inspired by her time working at private space firm jeff bayse's rocket company blue origin. Jones: "I really saw just how much cheaper and faster it was to threey print these really, really complicated parts"
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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