Jun 5, 2026 · 29 min · 12 segments
Host: Nicola Marchese Guest: Jeff Uhrig, former CEO of Sirrus (acquired by Nippon Shokubai) 👉 Subscribe to our newsletter for more…
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And then you bring the startup successfully through an exit strategy based on acquisition.
So to frame the conversation, can you tell us more about the context and what, let's say, a super glue...
the superglue was going to do and then how you turn the technical innovation into the first key application.
But one of the things that was very interesting back to the time Angela Merkel was, of course, running Germany at the time.
And she had this thing where she would stand and kind of hold her fingers like this and The joke was maybe she had superglue bonding her hands together.
And it turns out that our superglue could bond anything very, very quickly, but was not as active as what's now known as cyanoacrylates, which is traditional superglue, and it would not bond your hands.
So the joke when I went to Germany was like, all right, now Angela Merkel has something that won't bond our hands together, but...
Beyond that, it was just a really clever molecule that had been known for some time, but really was not in a position to be able to be manufactured at scale at a cost that would make sense.
So the initial innovation was really just around, hey, there's this molecule out there.
And then you bring the startup successfully through an exit strategy based on acquisition.
So to frame the conversation, can you tell us more about the context and what, let's say, a super glue...
the superglue was going to do and then how you turn the technical innovation into the first key application.
But one of the things that was very interesting back to the time Angela Merkel was, of course, running Germany at the time.
And she had this thing where she would stand and kind of hold her fingers like this and The joke was maybe she had superglue bonding her hands together.
And it turns out that our superglue could bond anything very, very quickly, but was not as active as what's now known as cyanoacrylates, which is traditional superglue, and it would not bond your hands.
So the joke when I went to Germany was like, all right, now Angela Merkel has something that won't bond our hands together, but...
Beyond that, it was just a really clever molecule that had been known for some time, but really was not in a position to be able to be manufactured at scale at a cost that would make sense.
So the initial innovation was really just around, hey, there's this molecule out there.
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