#100 Additive Insight | Print the Legend: A decade on

Additive Insight

In November 2014, TCT introduced the additive manufacturing industry’s first podcast, launching with an episode that featured the makers of Netflix’s exclusive 3D printing documentary: Print the Legend. Following the CEOs of MakerBot, Formlabs and 3D Systems, Print the Legend captured the zeitgeist of an industry at the peak of its hype cycle. Twenty five years on from 3D Systems’ commercialisation of 3D printing technology with the Stereolithography process, the industry was starting to see the emergence of a wealth of start-up companies, bringing to market more affordable machines in the desktop form factor. This ignited a spike in interest, investment and evangelism, with the Print the Legend film crew seeking to track the progress of the 3D printing industry’s newcomers. A decade on from the documentary’s production, and to mark the 100th episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we welcome two of the movie’s protagonists. Though Formlabs CEO Max Lobovsky declined to be interviewed, former MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis and former 3D Systems CEO Avi Reichental were happy to reflect on that period and share their learnings.