Peter Weimershausen

Co-founder & CEO, Humane Genomics · 1 appearance on the record.

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Peter Weijmarshausen co-founded the 3D-printing marketplace Shapeways in 2007 out of the Philips incubator and led it as CEO until 2017. In 2019, he co-founded Humane Genomics, a biotechnology startup engineering synthetic oncolytic viruses to target rare cancers.

9statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 2.44/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Peter argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

HP, Canon, and Toshiba Are Entering the 3D Printing Market

“Only quite recently, especially with the announcement of HP and their new three D printer, and as a result, the reaction of other companies like Toshiba, Canon is now involved in the print, in three D printing, and also new startups are popping up like desktop…”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 5:50 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

How they sound: speaking style how? →

248 words/min while actually speaking · 2.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Peter Weimershausen: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 15 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 3,797 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Peter Weimershausen is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 2/10

pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10

setup questions received 75%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 6:29“How do you, in the good times, try and keep reality very prominent and kind of prevent over excessive hype?” ▶ 16:15“What type of founders and startups do you think the incubator model works for?” ▶ 19:48“So when you look back at how you did fundraising then, how would you have changed it now if you were to do it again?”

when Peter pushed back ▶ 23:22“And if you see for one day, why only for one day? That's so short. No impact whatsoever.”

What they said9 Episodes1

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Insight

Bundling 3D Printer Hardware With Materials Artificially Inflates Costs

“These materials are currently sold as part and parcel of the package that you get from a manufacturer. And I think if you look in real manufacturing, there is nothing like it where a machine is sold by the same company that sells also the raw material. Typical…”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 9:57 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Prediction Partly held up

HP Decoupling 3D Printers From Materials Will Benefit the Entire Market

“Luckily, I'm seeing from HP that they're wanting to step away from that model and really say, okay, we provide the machines. Other people could provide the materials. You get competition in the material arena, just like you have competition in the machine aren…”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 10:26 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Assertion Partly supported

Jewelry and Toy Industries Are Not Embracing 3D Printing

“I don't see the jewelry industry embracing three D printing at all. I don't see the toy industry three embracing three D printing at all.”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 12:30 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Consumers Will Dictate Product Manufacturing Instead of Corporations

“The way we think about how products go to market will completely change. Instead of big corporates being in charge of what products will be made and will be sold, it will be the end user.”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 13:15 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Insight

Corporate Incubators Fail for Founders Seeking Quick Flips

“If you are a type of founder that is setting up a business for a quick flip, just going after the money and not purely only the passion of the company, then that model definitely wouldn't work because you would be way too worried that the corporate would run a…”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 17:30 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Opinion

European VCs Are More Conservative Than US Investors

“European VCs, per definition, are a little bit more conservative than American VCs, who are known to, in some cases, just roll the dice because they, A, have so much money, and B, oftentimes have big, big successes in their funds already, so they're maybe a li…”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 21:06 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Disclosure

Shapeways Began With 100% Philips IP Ownership

“So when I started, I was actually very straightforward, an employee of Philips, and everything I created was owned by Philips”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 16:28 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Insight

Creating a New Market Is Harder Than Disrupting Existing Ones

“Raising money and tell investors, potential investors, that there is really no market for your product, but that you're creating one. That's the hard way to start a company and raise money on. I mean, it's not impossible. I've proven that, but it's probably a …”

Peter Weimershausen Dec 9, 2016 ▶ 20:09 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways

Assertion Supported

HP, Canon, and Toshiba Are Entering the 3D Printing Market

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How	Dec 9, 2016	17m

Peter Weimershausen

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