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Podcast: Additive Insight
Episode: #88 Makelab CEO Christina Perla on building 'the Kinko's of additive manufacturing'
Description: On this episode of Additive Insight, our Executive Interview series continues with Makelab Co-founder and CEO Christina Perla.Â
Perla founded Makelab, a Brooklyn-based 3D printing service, with her husband Manny back in 2017. At the time, the co-founders were freelancing as industrial designers and offering 3D printing as an additional service - but within two years, the 3D printing part really took off. Now Makelab runs a lab of desktop 3D printers, producing parts on-demand for companies from Quip to Nvidia.
On this episode, Perla talks scaling, the power of localised manufacture, DEI initiatives, and ambitions to become the modern day 'Ki...