Blake Scholl
speaker
562 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Blake Scholl’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At early Amazon, I was lucky to get to work on something that Jeff Bezos cared about that mattered to Amazon.
So there I was, I was like 23, 24.
I had a $300 million P&L with a project that one of the world's greatest entrepreneurs cared about.
So when I screwed up, I had the most significant people at Amazon telling me how I screwed up and trying to help me not fail.
Those are the kinds of things that are game-changing experiences to have early in your career.
So go work with great people on a problem you care about that matters to the organization you're in.
And if it's a startup that you want to go create, that you love, that you can't get out of your system, then don't wait.
Just go start it.
OK.
On paper, you didn't have the credentials to start Boom, but you did it anyway.
Where did that self-belief come from?
Can it be cultivated?
Truth be told, I didn't have the self-belief on day one.
I had nowhere close to the resume to build a supersonic airliner.
When I told my friends I was thinking about it, I could just watch their eyes roll back and the oxygen would left the room.
One friend told me like, call me back when you got something less pie in the sky.
But I started thinking about the founders that I admired the most, the Steve Jobses, the Bill Gates.
I think in particular about something that Bill said in the 1970s.
Bill said his goal for Microsoft was to put a personal computer in every home and on every desk running Microsoft software.
And this was at a time where personal computers mostly didn't exist.
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