Blake Scholl
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562 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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What would be the Beatles, the Nikes, and the Hawaii's of a supersonic age?
In my mid-20s, I started to think about what it would take to bring back supersonic passenger travel.
And I set a lifetime goal of breaking the sound barrier.
So like any tech nerd in my 20s, what did I do?
I put a Google News alert on supersonic.
And yet, there was more progress in supersonic music than supersonic flying.
So I started to wonder, how would it be that supersonic travel could come back?
The obvious thing seemed to be that it would be a private jet, a business jet made by somebody like Gulfstream for the wealthiest people on the planet.
But one of the fallouts of the Concorde era was that we actually banned supersonic flight in the US.
And since most Gulf Stream miles are overland in the US, there simply wasn't much of a business case without a regulatory change.
And nobody in the business jet world wanted to try to change the regulations.
They didn't want to build an airplane that might not be legal.
What about an airliner?
Wouldn't you expect Boeing to carry us forward into a supersonic age?
Well, no.
They're not even building new airplanes anymore, let alone innovative new airplanes.
So could a startup do this?
Not all that long ago, the idea of a startup supersonic airliner seemed laughable.
One of my very many failed investor pitches was in 2015 when Jeff Bezos passed on our seed round at Boom.
And then he wrote in the 2015 Amazon shareholder letter about how there's certain things that only big companies can do.
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