Blake Scholl
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so two things.
One is, I mean, with the benefit of hindsight, we were very early to deep tech.
Had we known on day one what I think the whole community knows today, it wouldn't have taken five years.
It would have taken more like two or three.
And it would have been much easier.
And so if I say, okay, what are the specific lessons behind that?
Part of it is about iteration.
And the most important iteration in hardware, by the way, is to iterate at the product level.
we bit off an extremely challenging prototype challenge in XB1.
What we should have planned is something simpler and easier that would give us multiple shots on goal, because that is how you discover not only have you gotten engineering decisions wrong, maybe you've gotten requirement decisions wrong.
And if you do that, you can iterate faster, you can get to proof points faster, and the fundraising challenge that Boom had is not one you'll have.
So I guess I recommend not following in our footsteps in that regard.
Okay, what would I work on if I was 20?
I think founders should work on the most exciting thing that they can imagine themselves doing with a stretch wherever they are in life.
So if you're 20, if you have a startup that is like calling you,
that you think about day or night, maybe you're not even sure whether you can pull it off, but if you're in that state, you should go build that thing.
And if you don't have that, you should go work with the best people you can find solving the problem they're working on that you're most excited about solving.
The magic happens early in your career when you find an intersection of what you love doing
that you can become really good at that matters to the organization around you.
When you hit all three of those, your career goes vertical.
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