Oil companies are not that keen on exporting oil into remote locations in the deserts of Kenya and for that reason, diesel is very expensive," the CEO tells me.
Currently, such 3-D printers in which successive layers of different polymers are sprayed gradually, building up a 3-D object are very expensive, says Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO of Shapeways, a spinout from Philips Research, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
"Getting to the consumer market is expensive," says Tivo's CEO, Michael Ramsay.
"In retail, incentives and promotions are critical sales tools but they are one-size-fits-all and can be very expensive," says Michael Amar, Ifeelgoods CEO and co-founder.
The film certainly seems like an expensive endeavor, and while CEO Eugene Chung didn't talk numbers, he also didn't confirm whether the startup would be charging users to download the film and view on home VR devices.
"It makes us an effective tool for surviving in a market where customer acquisition cost keeps getting more expensive," co-founder and CEO Liad Agmon said in an interview.
However, the current state of metal 3D printing is slow and expensive, says Desktop Metal CEO and cofounder Ric Fulop, who told me that part of the motivation for starting his company in 2015 was "out of frustration". "It seemed like the only way to improve the performance of metal printers was to make them more expensive," he said.
This week's winner is former Merrill Lynch Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Expensive Toilet Connoisseur (ETC) John A. Thain.
If the political chaos intensifies, it could push the pound closer to parity, which would give American travelers a pricing advantage when booking hotels and tours in the U.K. "Your shopping, dining and overall travel could become meaningfully more — or less — expensive," says Greg Geronemus, co-CEO of smarTours, a guided tour company that takes travelers to England and Ireland.
