Blake Scholl

And I remember listening to a talk that Brian Chesky, the founding CEO of Airbnb, gave about how he led Airbnb through the crisis that was COVID.

And what he said is, when you're in a crisis, you need to become more of who you deeply are and always needed to be.

Go back to who you really are.

I remember hearing that and thinking, we're going to go all in on our own engines.

It's what we always should have done.

We'd already sort of started down that path, and then we doubled down on it, and we clawed our way back.

And if I think about why we were able to claw our way back, it's because I and the team at Boom believed that this should exist, and it was worth not giving up on.

So, you know, for a while, XB1, we called it the Mojave Honey Badger.

It was just like, we're not going to, stuff happens, we keep going.

Can't stop us.

We've learned some principles about this, and we're actually in the process of writing them down and trying to get really clear on the principles.

Elon talks about the best part is no part.

It's true, but there's a whole hierarchy.

The best part is no part.

The next best part is a completely off-the-shelf, commercially available part.

It's already designed and built, easily available.

The next best part after that, if it's custom, is the one that we design and build ourselves.

The worst part is one where we outsource engineering and manufacturing.

On XB-1, we had a whole spectrum.

You could find every supply chain strategy somewhere on that airplane.