[bborud]

I was very interested until I saw this blog post:

http://glowforge.com/our-new-advisor-jennifer-lawton/

If you have been following the whole Makerbot Industries (and then Stratasys) debacle, seeing the name of Jennifer Lawton might give you pause.

I think I'm going to sit this one out.

[ceejayoz]

> If you have been following the whole Makerbot Industries (and then Stratasys) debacle, seeing the name of Jennifer Lawton might give you pause.

For those of us who haven't been, can you give a TL;DR version of why this is significant?

[bborud]

The TL;DR is that she was part of creating a toxic environment within the company, shipped a product they knew was defective (Makerbot fifth generation), misled the shareholders (of Stratasys) and ultimately cost Stratasys hundreds of millions.

For the slightly longer version the class action lawsuit conatins a lot more detail: http://www.adafruit.com/pdfs/makerbot/classaction.pdf

You can also check out Glassdoor reviews: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Makerbot-Reviews-E480203.ht...

I can confirm that the Makerbot 5gen is a defective product. We have one at the office gathering dust after trying to make it work for a few months. It is beyond hope.

[ansible]

... shipped a product they knew was defective (Makerbot fifth generation) ...

Yikes. Clogged extruders and many software problems:

http://nicklievendag.com/makerbot-replicator-5th-generation-...

[avoutthere]

Thanks for the heads-up about this.