Blake Scholl
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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And some of my favorite shots were from classrooms around the country where kids who were otherwise not tuned in to aviation or to science tuned in.
And some of them stood up and some of them jumped up and down.
And one of those classrooms somewhere in the world is the next chief engineer of another supersonic jet.
I just haven't gotten to meet him or her yet.
We think it's important to do that inspiration.
And so we build in public.
The best way to follow along is to follow me or follow the company on X. And now we have actually quite a bit of time for Q&A.
So I'd love to make this interactive.
I'd love to make this a conversation.
And if you can send your question to the Y Combinator agent, they are filtering them backstage.
And we'll pop them up here, and we'll talk about them.
What is something widely believed in tech that's just not true?
Boy, lots of things.
But there was one false belief that almost stopped me from founding Boom.
You tend to get told that every technology gets created kind of at the earliest moment of history that it could be.
And therefore, if your idea is any good and nobody else is working on it, there's probably something wrong with the idea.
Maybe there's something wrong with you.
And then investors ask you the question, why now?
And so all of this kind of compounds to a whole bunch of founders running at a relatively small space of ideas that are only recently possible.
This is why we've got an explosion of AI companies now and why a little while ago we had an explosion of photo sharing apps.
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