i didn't know any investors. Iven iways scraping my contacts from way back in us C and anyone even tangentally related to start ups. So i just put in the two line, 20 different versions. Yes, he responded in five minutes. He's now invested in every funding run we've done since. But y he ended up doing, you know, we're raising 500 k. We wanted a hundred thousand dollars. And he said, well, you now 'll just do the entire thing, like, i'll do all 500 k.
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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