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Blake Scholl

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1637 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

I mean, I haven't found anything in the world I don't think I would be better off faster.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

I think everything's better faster.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

But for flights over three or four hours, you can argue cutting it in half is meaningful.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

So ultimately, if we want to enable more people to go more places more often, we need the flights to be faster.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

We need to delete the terrible hassle and inconvenience that is air travel today.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

And we need to get the cost down as much as we can so that cost isn't a barrier to actually going.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

So that's the ultimate goal, to confine subsonic jets to the airplane boneyards, put them in museums where they belong.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

But it'll take a few iterations to get there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

So Overture, which is this airplane, the first one, first commercial airplane, starts all business class.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

So you can kind of think of, for people who know the Tesla story, RXB-1 supersonic demonstrator, it's kind of like the Tesla Roadster.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

Proved you can do it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

Not, you know.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

The airplane was really just for a test pilot.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

Prove we could do it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

Prove the technology was there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

Okay, the first product is kind of like the Model S. A lot of people can afford to drive a Model S, but not everybody.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

And then we take everything we learn from that airplane and we'll build a second generation, larger airplane that's even more affordable.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

And we'll probably take two or three kind of iteration cycles to the point where anybody who wants to fly supersonic will be able to afford to fly supersonic.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

Ultimately, there's going to be a whole family of airplanes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

The way you make...