Rotterdam-based Nearfield Instruments was recently hailed by the press as a future billion-dollar company, but René Raaijmakers doesn’t see that happening anytime soon.
It must feel uncomfortable. You’re barely out of the starting blocks and you’re already placed on a pedestal by our naive quality newspapers. NRC Handelsblad took it to the extreme by comparing Nearfield Instruments to the top three in Dutch semicon equipment in an interview with co-founder and CEO Hamed Sadeghian.
“If everything goes the way the top executive envisions, Nearfield will be a billion-dollar company within two years, just like the well-known names in the Dutch high-tech sector,” NRC wrote. Without delving much deeper, the newspaper headlined: “Nearfield is well on its way to achieving a position as a billion-dollar company, just like ASML, ASMI and Besi.”
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