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Analyses that slice AMPulse’s accumulated data across geography, era, technology, application, and capital.

12 reports3 statistics pagesBy Sangmin Lee

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  • SEP 2026
  • Cohort analysis
  • Company mortality
  • Target market

The Aiming of a Generation

Booms do not kill their vintage, they aim it. Where an AM company aimed at founding predicts its odds of dying far better than the year it was born, and the destination that looks safest did not keep its companies either. It sold them.

recorded mortality, Consumer vs Aerospace/Defense, same founding years
32.4 vs 1.6%
mortality of the consumer printer makers founded 2012-14, the deadliest cell in the record
48.4%
Aerospace/Defense companies from that cohort recorded defunct, and acquired
1 vs 10

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Cover of The Aiming of a Generation, showing cumulative mortality by founding destination

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