Jason Ballard

Jason Ballard is an American housing entrepeneur based in Texas. He is best known for his role as co-founder and CEO of Icon 3D, a construction technology company focused on 3D-printing houses. In this role, he helped create the world's first 3D-printed community, Wolf Ranch. He previously founded eco-friendly home store Treehouse. He was named to the Time 100 Next in 2021. Biography Ballard grew up in Bridge City, Texas and Orange, Texas to a community which frequently evacuated from hurricanes, and once spent Christmas at a FEMA trailer. His community also was filled with petrochemical plants. and earn a master's degree in space resources, as well as become an apprentice in carpentry. He ultimately decided, however, to focus on housing. It included products focused on sustainability and affordability. He led it to acquire $35,000,000 in investments and open two more stores. Their first attempt, revealed during South by Southwest, resulted in a successful house, but was misreported as being lower-cost than it was. This helped increase demand. Another project he created early on was a partnership with a local housing development focused on supporting the homeless. to print a simulation of a Martian building at the Johnson Space Center. He has emphasized the ease of creating "additional flourishes" in these buildings.

As part of ICON 3D, he also launched artificial intelligence tool Vitruvius.