Blake Scholl

Okay, it'd have to be an effort from outside the industry.

Nobody who had spent their careers at Boeing or Airbus would ever do it because they'd have learned all the reasons why it's impossible.

It'd have to be somebody from outside the industry.

And what would the attributes of that effort have to look like?

And what would the leaders of that effort have to look like?

Well, you'd have to be incredibly passionate about the mission because it would be long and hard.

And if you didn't care about it and you were sane, you'd give up.

So mission passion, mission orientation would matter.

Being able to tell the story of why supersonic would matter.

would be really important, because that would be the only way you could get a dream team together.

And this would need a dream team.

And so the ability to story tell, the ability to be persuasive, the ability to be a minnow that gets sharks to come swim with you, the startup would have to go get these airlines that are used to buying Boeing and Airbus airplanes to go buy airplanes from a startup instead.

It would require this incredible power of persuasion, of perseverance.

I put that aside and I looked in the mirror and I said, do I look like the CEO for this?

The answer was not at all.

I didn't know anything about the industry.

I don't think I could have sold you a dollar bill for 50 cents.

I said, okay.

A lot of these things I was really insecure about.

I was insecure about networking.