Last year, Velo3D marked a major milestone when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company had merged with JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corporation a few months prior and was sitting on $274 million in funds.
In the year since, Velo3D has marked continued growth. The startup provides an end-to-end metal 3D printing solution for mission-critical parts used for space exploration, and is renowned for how it improved on laser powder bed fusion (PBF) technology.
However, success didn’t come easily for the company’s founder Benny Buller. Throughout his startup journey, Buller came to the edge of the precipice on more than one occasion and his handling of these moments are what enabled his company to stand out from the crowd.
“Success in a startup is not achieved very often,” Buller says. “These near death situations are inevitable in every startup, and how you deal with them is probably what separates the ones that succeed from the ones that fail.”
Buller is among the keynote speakers at this year’s Founder’s Network annual conference. In his session, Buller will detail his journey as a startup founder and the challenges he faced along the way.
If you can’t make it to fnSummit 2022, you can still tune in to Buller’s keynote virtually on October 14, 2022.
In his keynote, Buller will cover:
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