Bre Pettis Explained

Bre Pettis
Birth Date:14 July 1972
Education:Evergreen State College (BA)[1]
Pacific Oaks College (Education, teaching certificate)
Known For:co-founder and former CEO of MakerBot Industries

Bre Pettis (born July 14, 1972)[2] is an American entrepreneur, video blogger and creative artist. Pettis is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of MakerBot Industries, a 3D printer company now owned by Stratasys.[3] [4]

Early life and education

Pettis was raised in Ithaca, New York, a childhood spent climbing trees and playing in the woods independent and self-reliant.[5] At the age of 13 he moved to the Seattle area, where he later graduated from Bellevue High School.[6] Pettis is a 1995 graduate of The Evergreen State College,[7] [8] where he studied psychology, mythology and performing arts.[9] [10]

After college, Pettis worked as floor runner and camera assistant on feature films in Prague and as an assistant at Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London.[11] He then attended Pacific Oaks College and graduated with a teaching certificate.[8] He worked as a teacher for the Seattle Public Schools from 1999 through 2006.[12]

Career

After graduating and working on various films in Europe, Pettis moved to London and began working at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and making super-custom animatronics, or high-performance robots. Pettis learned prototyping here, as well as building one-of-a-kind things from scratch, allowing him to eventually be paid for his work.

He is also known for DIY video podcasts for MAKE,[13] and for the History Hacker pilot on the History Channel.[14] He is one of the founders of the Brooklyn-based hacker space NYC Resistor.[15]

Pettis is a co-founder and former CEO[3] of MakerBot Industries, a company that produces 3D printers[13] now owned by Stratasys. Besides being a TV host and Video Podcast producer, he's created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine's Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer. He was the artist-in-residence of art group monochrom at Museumsquartier Vienna in 2007.[16] [17]

Pettis was featured in the documentary film Print the Legend.[18]

He left Makerbot in 2014.[19]

In June 2017, Pettis acquired start-up Other Machine Co. — now called Bantam Tools — from its founder and CEO, Danielle Applestone.[20] In November 2019, Bantam Tools moved their facilities to Peekskill, New York.[21] In January 2024, Bantam Tools announced that it had acquired Evil Mad Scientist,[22] known for the AxiDraw, a computer-controlled drawing and handwriting machine.

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Notes and References

  1. Shea, Carolyn, "Making It: Educator, entrepreneur, and creator extraordinaire, Bre Pettis ’95 is a full-blown celebrity in the do-it-yourself, business, and tech worlds", The Evergreen Magazine, Fall 2013 issue
  2. Web site: CNBC Next List: Bre Pettis . October 6, 2014 . CNBC.
  3. Web site: Bre Pettis Interview on Founder Stories . MakerBot Industries . June 30, 2011 . September 20, 2011.
  4. News: Kittens With Jet Packs? Not Yet, but These Inventors Are on It . . Dwyer . Jim . March 4, 2011 . September 20, 2011 .
  5. News: Roberts . Barbara . January 2022 . Flight paths Selling a business is just the beginning . 11–12 . UBS Financial Services Inc. (“UBS”) .
  6. News: Soper . Taylor . Jeff Bezos-backed 3D-printing company MakerBot acquired for $403M . GeekWire . June 19, 2013 .
  7. Web site: Evergreen magazine: News & Notes (page 20) . The Evergreen State College . Fall 2009 . September 20, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324095622/http://www.evergreen.edu/alumni/docs/emag_fall09a.pdf . March 24, 2012 . dead .
  8. Web site: Bre Pettis . BusinessInsider.com . September 20, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121008065730/http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/bre-pettis . Oct 8, 2012. dead .
  9. News: The CNBC Next List: Bre Pettis . CNBC . October 6, 2014.
  10. News: How Bre Pettis Gained Incredible Entrepreneurial Success . Expert Money . June 28, 2017.
  11. News: Oremus . Will . The Steve Jobs of Useless Plastic Trinkets . Slate . September 21, 2012.
  12. News: Bre Pettis, innovator, artist and advanced manufacturing pioneer, to receive honorary degree; speak at SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Commencement . SUNY New Paltz News . March 23, 2015.
  13. News: Downes . Laurence . Geeks on a Train . The New York Times . April 10, 2010 . June 5, 2011.
  14. Web site: History Hacker: Bre Pettis explains Tesla . . John . Baichtal . September 5, 2008 . October 30, 2008.
  15. News: Lee . Kevin . Get a peek inside NYC Resistor and see where the maker revolution started . PCWorld . April 29, 2013.
  16. News: Seven on Seven 2011 . Rhizome . May 14, 2011.
  17. Web site: MakerBot hat seinen Ursprung in Wien und würde sich an HP verkaufen . 3druck . 18 April 2013 . 21 January 2019.
  18. News: Zaleski . Andrew . The 3D Printing Revolution That Wasn't . WIRED . December 1, 2016.
  19. News: 3-D Printing Pioneer Goes Low Tech, With a $5,800 Watch Made in Brooklyn. Williams. Alex. 2016-11-02. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 2016-12-29.
  20. News: Evangelista . Benny . MakerBot founder Bre Pettis takes another run at DIY revolution . San Francisco Chronicle . June 2, 2017.
  21. News: Look inside Peekskill's new Bantam Tools high-tech manufacturing facility . November 18, 2019.
  22. Web site: Bantam Tools Acquires Evil Mad Scientist to Accelerate Development of Next Generation Art and Handwriting Machines . 14 March 2024.

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