Blake Scholl

He didn't have the heart to tell me not to.

And so I think the reality was on day one, nobody believed it.

Not even me.

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Yeah, let's see.

So I left Groupon and something like March of 2014.

And then I set the company up a paper in September of that year, but it's decided quick.

Well, to me that feels slow, but really, yeah, I had my head that I would take a few months off.

I think I only took a few weeks off before I really got focused on it.

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And it was around that time, I was still living in California.

I hadn't moved to Denver yet.

And I think I had some folding chairs and some plastic tubes that I was using in my basement just by myself to try and figure out how small could you make an airliner and still have it be comfortable.

The diameter of these things matters for the fuel efficiency.

And then I moved to Denver in early 2015, hired our first few people.

And one of the first things we did is start building mock-ups.

You're doing everything.

We're doing our own engines.

We're not doing our own everything.

But I've become a big believer that if there is a custom part needed on the airplane, it's much better to vertically integrate it than to outsource it.