Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Drew Taylor

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

I don't want to mix those up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

So the question was, did they take equity?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

So Beta Spring, they're using a different model now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

I don't know what they do now, but at the time it was 6%, which was kind of what Techstars and everyone was doing at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

And 500 Startups was 7%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

Well, the way that we do it is these companies that you might think of that could crush us actually desperately want us to do the software for their system, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

So we are actually their partner that provides the solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

Well, they're starting to come on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

I can't say much right now about the companies that we're speaking to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

We expect a couple of contracts to close within the next two months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

But let's just say extremely well-known household brands that will likely have 3D printers in the store by Christmas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

Well, we partner with the printer manufacturer to be basically their entire cloud backbone, their IoT backbone for their 3D printer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

But then we do have printer partners that will OEM the machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

Oh, they'll basically white label a machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

So they white label a machine to a major brand, and then we white label the software solution behind the machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

Yes, but it could be even more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

So basically, if you had a deal with Toys R Us to white label that machine to be the Toys R Us printer, then our software would make that printer intelligent, connect it to a cloud with Toys R Us apps, and then also allow that printer to be interacted with through iOS and Android apps as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

It could be for Toys R Us, but another aspect of it is by connecting to our entire app marketplace, that Toys R Us machine is connected to every other app that's out there, which means remote monitoring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will This 43 Year Old Win The 3D Printing Industry? EP 260: Drew Taylor

Thingiverse is a very, very popular model repository with hundreds of thousands of models.