Arc CEO Bryan Wisk said he and his partners see Desktop Metal in the same light as Bell Labs, AT&T’s research and development wing that drove massive communications technology advancements throughout the 20th century.
“AT&T’s position in long-distance telephony created a steady stream of real problems (“pull”), and a vertically integrated engine—from research to Western Electric manufacturing—turned answers into deployed infrastructure (“lab-through-production”),” Wisk said in a blog post. “Arc acquired Desktop Metal because we want to build the 21st-century idea factory—open to every company, not just one.”
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