Bre Pettis
Bre Pettis
Bre Pettisis an American entrepreneur, video blogger and multi-artist. He is also known for DIY video podcasts for MAKE, and for the History Hacker pilot on the History Channel. He is one of the founders of the Brooklyn-based hacker space NYC Resistor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
people wonderful wonderful-things
A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.
people giving tangible
There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make?
technology passing passings
It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
knowing accepting pretending
Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
ideas people get-real
You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.
cool folks knew sharing stuff
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
anybody believe business faith hard reasonable
One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.
design object
You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.
people
We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.
beauty chunk city drink good living willing york
That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.
empower grail holy people
My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
people
Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.
best car next number organs problem reduce supply
The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
apple bought home kids last people printers
The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually the last people to get it. The kids are like, 'Get out of my way, I want at this thing.' They immediately start getting creative.