Bre Pettis

Bre Pettis (born c. 1972/1973)[1] 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]

Bre Pettis
Pettis at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress, December 2009
Bornc. 1972 or 1973 (age 50–51)[1]
EducationEvergreen State College (BA)[2]
Pacific Oaks College (Education, teaching certificate)
Known forco-founder and former CEO of MakerBot Industries

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.[4] At the age of 13 he moved to the Seattle area, where he later graduated from Bellevue High School.[5] Pettis is a 1995 graduate of The Evergreen State College,[6][7] where he studied psychology, mythology and performing arts.[8][9]

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.[10] He then attended Pacific Oaks College and graduated with a teaching certificate.[7] He worked as a teacher for the Seattle Public Schools from 1999 through 2006.[11]

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.[4]

He is also known for DIY video podcasts for MAKE,[12] and for the History Hacker pilot on the History Channel.[13] He is one of the founders of the Brooklyn-based hacker space NYC Resistor.[14]

Pettis is a co-founder and former CEO[3] of MakerBot Industries, a company that produces 3D printers[12] 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.[15][16]

Pettis was featured in the documentary film Print the Legend.[17]

He left Makerbot in 2014.[18]

In June 2017, Pettis acquired start-up Other Machine Co. — now called Bantam Tools — from its founder and CEO, Danielle Applestone.[19] In November 2019, Bantam Tools moved their facilities to Peekskill, NY.[20]

References
  1. Dwyer, Jim (March 4, 2011). "Kittens With Jet Packs? Not Yet, but These Inventors Are on It". The New York Times. Retrieved September 20, 2011. The group that created the 3-D MakerBot printer — Mr. Pettis, 38, Mr. Smith, 27, and Mr. Mayer, 35
  2. 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" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, The Evergreen Magazine, Fall 2013 issue
  3. "Bre Pettis Interview on Founder Stories". MakerBot Industries. June 30, 2011. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  4. Roberts, Barbara (January 2022). "Flight paths Selling a business is just the beginning" (PDF). UBS Financial Services Inc. (“UBS”). pp. 11–12.
  5. Soper, Taylor (June 19, 2013). "Jeff Bezos-backed 3D-printing company MakerBot acquired for $403M". GeekWire.
  6. "Evergreen magazine: News & Notes (page 20)" (PDF). The Evergreen State College. Fall 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  7. "Bre Pettis". BusinessInsider.com. Archived from the original on Oct 8, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  8. "The CNBC Next List: Bre Pettis". CNBC. October 6, 2014.
  9. "How Bre Pettis Gained Incredible Entrepreneurial Success". Expert Money. June 28, 2017.
  10. Oremus, Will (September 21, 2012). "The Steve Jobs of Useless Plastic Trinkets". Slate.
  11. "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.
  12. Downes, Laurence (April 10, 2010). "Geeks on a Train". The New York Times. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
  13. Baichtal, John (September 5, 2008). "History Hacker: Bre Pettis explains Tesla". Wired.com. Retrieved October 30, 2008.
  14. Lee, Kevin (April 29, 2013). "Get a peek inside NYC Resistor and see where the maker revolution started". PCWorld.
  15. "Seven on Seven 2011". Rhizome. May 14, 2011.
  16. "MakerBot hat seinen Ursprung in Wien und würde sich an HP verkaufen". 3druck. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  17. Zaleski, Andrew (December 1, 2016). "The 3D Printing Revolution That Wasn't". WIRED.
  18. Williams, Alex (2016-11-02). "3-D Printing Pioneer Goes Low Tech, With a $5,800 Watch Made in Brooklyn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  19. Evangelista, Benny (June 2, 2017). "MakerBot founder Bre Pettis takes another run at DIY revolution". San Francisco Chronicle.
  20. "Look inside Peekskill's new Bantam Tools high-tech manufacturing facility". November 18, 2019.

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