Joe DeSimone (Carbon) - The Case for Convergence

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Joe DeSimone is the founder and executive chairman of Carbon, a global company that is driving the evolution of 3D printing from a prototyping tool into a scalable manufacturing technology. As a professor at the University of North Carolina, DeSimone made scientific breakthroughs in areas including green chemistry, medical devices, and nanotechnology, also co-founding several companies based on his research. In 2016 President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor in the U.S. for achievement and leadership in advancing technological progress. In this talk, he explores how diverse teams, perspectives and specialties can drive innovations in both technologies and business models.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build. This is Thought Leaders Revisited, a special summer
0:09.5	2020 edition of our Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. During this summer of uncertainty,
0:16.0	we're inviting some of the most influential past ETL speakers to join us for a series of new conversations
0:22.3	about innovation, leadership, and especially finding opportunities in the midst of a crisis.
0:28.9	On this episode, we're joined by Joseph D. Simone. Joe co-founded Carbon in 2013. Carbon is doing
0:36.0	groundbreaking work on 3D printing for a wide range of applications,
0:40.3	including urgent needs during the COVID crisis. We're welcoming back, Joe, who was here
0:47.6	up just almost four years ago in 2016. He co-founded Carbon three years before that. Previously, he was a professor at
0:57.4	the University of North Carolina. But while you were there, you were also, you're doing these
1:02.2	scientific breakthroughs, like I mentioned, and co-founding several companies, all before launching
1:07.1	carbon. So can you share a little bit more about that path and how you balance those two?
1:13.9	Well, sure. It's great to connect with the Duky here as a Tar Hill. But in fact, my first PhD
1:21.3	student, Valerie Ashby, is now dean of Trinity College there at Duke University. So I'm much more
1:27.0	tolerant of my Duke colleagues there.
1:28.8	But yeah, Carolina hired me when I was 25 to help start a polymer program.
1:33.7	And, you know, I brought a utilitarian-like perspective from Virginia Tech and, you know,
1:40.4	a liberal arts education from her scientist college and tried to meld all that together
1:44.9	and launched my program. And, you know, it was a center-based research. I had great students.
1:52.1	You know, we really focused on fundamentals that would have an impact in the real world. I call
1:58.1	it translational research. And but, you know, I taught entrepreneurship,
2:02.1	you know, we had an entrepreneurship minor in a College of Arts and Sciences at Carolina.
2:06.9	And but, and I started several companies, but I was always, I was never on the field with any
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