At R3 Printing, we're building the ultimate platform for on-demand additive manufacturing. The strong investor interest we're seeing so far is extremely exciting, and we're thrilled that the Republic community is sharing our vision for a customized, 3D-printed future.

Given this Memorial Day holiday weekend, we'll be keeping our update short. Though rest assured, we have lots of exciting media to share with you this coming week, most notably a video to accompany our Deal Page pitch. Expect an additional update when it's live!

In the meantime, we'd like to share this thought-provoking TED presentation from 2007 by Amazon.com founder & CEO Jeff Bezos:

The takeaway, that the internet boom is more similar to the invention of electricity than the gold rush, holds true for our industry as well: rather than being a single product that can achieve market saturation and eventually stagnate, the internet (and additive manufacturing) are platforms upon which products and services are built. The products/services themselves may come and go (or simply achieve market saturation and lose the allure of novelty), but the platform upon which they’re built are here to stay.

We'd love to explore this analogy further in future updates, if it's interesting to you. Let us know in the comments, we'd love your feedback!