Blake Scholl

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

So I don't think this is any size fits all.

And don't start a company just to start a company.

That's a good recipe for misery.

And the worst thing you can do is start a company that you don't love and then get stuck.

And this sounds like a champagne problem, but it's actually pretty bad.

And I know successful founders that have had this problem, who are running successful companies that they actually don't love, but they feel the debt of responsibility to their employees and their investors.

And it's very hard to replace a founder CEO.

So now they're trapped.

So start a company, but only if it's a company you want to keep.

OK.

It says we've got time for three more questions.

Okay, do founders need to move to San Francisco?

No, this founder moved from San Francisco to start Boom.

I left San Francisco and moved to Denver to put Boom there because it did not seem

feasible to build in the physical world affordably at scale in the Bay Area.

That said, I do think there's enormous benefit in being surrounded by other ambitious people.

And there is no ecosystem better than that than what exists here in San Francisco.

Let me put it this way.

Unless there is a specific reason why

You should not be in an ecosystem.

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