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When he showed up on Google Meet for our interview, I could see that Philip Pounds, co-founder of Unlayered 3D, was seated shotgun in a moving car. I wasn’t sure who was driving, but barely a minute later I heard a voice off-screen, at which point Philip tilted his phone to his left:
“I won’t look at the camera for obvious reasons,” said Alex Stedman, the company’s other co-founder, staring straight ahead, “but I originally got into 3D printing because I wanted to make robotics parts in low volumes.”
I started the interview with the cliche question, ‘How did you originally get into 3D printing?’, which I generally try to avoid. In this case though, I was genuinely curious, because Pounds and Stedman are both so young, having just graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indi