Founders And Funders

Kevin Czinger, the founder of Divergent 3D, is challenging the auto industry’s reliance on 100-year-old manufacturing systems that cannot be sustained. Subscribe to Founders and Funders on iTunes, TuneIn, Stitcher, Google Play, iHeartRADIO, and Android Podcast Players. Episode Summary Kevin Czinger is among the best football players to have ever competed in the Ivy League. At Yale, he holds the school record for single-season and career sacks, he was named First Team All-Ivy League and won the Ivy League MVP, and he led the Bulldogs to back-to-back Ivy League titles. Now he's tackling a different kind of opponent: Climate change. Czinger is the Founder and CEO of Divergent 3D, a Los Angeles-based company that is leveraging 3D printing technology to make vehicle manufacturing sustainable. How Czinger transitioned from the gridiron to rethinking the auto industry’s 100-year-old production line is an interesting yarn. It starts with a year of hitchhiking around the country and roughnecking for an offshore oi