Nearfield Instruments is a brand-new scale-up in Dutch high-tech semicon equipment. After shipping its first metrology system to a high-end chip manufacturer, the Rotterdam-based company is gearing up to deliver dozens of systems in the coming years. In this first podcast - in a series of two - René Raaijmakers talks to founder and CEO Hamed Sadeghian about the road to the current success, his career choices and his ambitions for the future.