Blake Scholl
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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And I think if Uber had tried to befriend the regulators first, it just wouldn't have worked.
And one of those reasons is that there was an active opponent.
Like the entrenched taxi industry
was using the regulators to block their competition.
By the way, this is the pattern in a lot of regulation.
It doesn't come from like some well-meaning person trying to keep the public safe.
It comes from some entrenched, frankly, lazy interest that doesn't wanna have to compete and runs to DC or runs to the local regulator and tries to use the power of government to shut their competition down.
I think this is deeply unethical, but it happens all the time.
And so if you can do what Travis did and go launch your product and have your customers be your ally, I think that can work great.
That was never going to work in aviation.
And on the other hand, we didn't really have an entrenched enemy.
Boeing has plenty of its own self-inflicted problems.
They thought boom was kind of cute, would probably never succeed.
So in a sense, we were flying under the radar.
And in that context, and also building a product that was safety critical, it made a lot of sense to engage regulatory early.
So when we started the company, started building XB1, I went to the FAA.
I told them what we were doing, why we were doing it, why we thought it mattered.
And we asked them to help us.
We asked them for feedback.
We said, hey, come anytime you want, see anything you want to see.
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