Ultimaker, interview with the CEO Siert Wijnia: “What we are trying to do is to see whether we can make a viable model in the real world of open source hardware.”

Based in Geldermalsen, the Dutch company Ultimaker has been constantly growing since its foundation in 2011. Its success lies in their open-source-based business model, which allowed it to build a strong bond with the community, while gaining an infinite source of knowledge and inspiration to improve products.

Ultimaker started from a small group people in FabLab ProtoSpace. It currently employs about 100 people, which demonstrates what a FabLab can mean for society, and what the community can mean for business.

We had the opportunity to visit its offices and to meet the co-founder and CEO of the company, Siert Wijnia. With him, we talked about the way everything started from open-source, and the reasons why he is still going to rely on it.

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