President SaaS Business at PTC. Former Co-founder and CEO at Onshape Inc. PTC acquired Onshape Inc. in Nov 2019. Onshape makes the world's first and only full-cloud/full-SaaS product development platform which includes 3D CAD, release management, collaboration, workflow, analytics, and many other tools.
Previously founded SolidWorks in 1993 and served as CEO, Group Executive and Board Member until 2011 watching SolidWorks grow to 2 million users and over $500 million / year in revenue. SolidWorks was sold to Dassault Systemes (DS) in 1997, and has since operated successfully as a DS subsidiary.
Specialties: Mechanical Computer Aided Design (CAD), 3D Printing
Jon Hirschtick has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Episode 118: Digital Manufacturing in the Cloud with Jon Hirschtick (Rebroadcast)
July 12th, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 10 mins
In this conversation, we talk with our guest, Jon Hirschtick, Head of SaaS, Onshape and Atlas Platform, PTC, about the story of SolidWorks, using agile methods, listening to the market, charting the evolution of CAD into SaaS, and its emerging and future iterations in the open source cloud and beyond.
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Episode 23: Digital Manufacturing in the Cloud
June 30th, 2021 | Season 1 | 1 hr 10 mins
digital factory, education, future of work, manufacturing