How to Stand your Ground as a Startup Founder with Benny Buller (October 14, 2022)

Last year, Velo3D marked a major milestone when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company had merged with JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corporation a few months prior and was sitting on $274 million in funds.

In the year since, Velo3D has marked continued growth. The startup provides an end-to-end metal 3D printing solution for mission-critical parts used for space exploration, and is renowned for how it improved on laser powder bed fusion (PBF) technology.

However, success didn’t come easily for the company’s founder Benny Buller. Throughout his startup journey, Buller came to the edge of the precipice on more than one occasion and his handling of these moments are what enabled his company to stand out from the crowd.

“Success in a startup is not achieved very often,” Buller says. “These near death situations are inevitable in every startup, and how you deal with them is probably what separates the ones that succeed from the ones that fail.”

Buller is among the keynote speakers at this year’s Founders Network annual conference. In his session, Buller will detail his journey as a startup founder and the challenges he faced along the way.

If you can’t make it to fnSummit 2022, you can still tune in to Buller’s keynote virtually on October 14, 2022.

In his keynote, Buller will cover:

• How a company’s culture is the mirror of its founders’ character
• How mistakes are the foundation of startup success
• The line between vision and determination, and stubbornness and arrogance

Guests Are Welcome!

Please bring a guest! Every member can bring one (1) guest to each event. Each guest must be a full-time tech startup founder so they can bring new perspectives, skillsets, and experience to your chapter.

All guests must be full-time tech startup founders and you can register them directly on this function page. See How to Register a Guest here.

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