Blake Scholl

You know, he wouldn't have succeeded if he hadn't gone for it.

And it wouldn't have happened on one hand.

You know, on the other hand, they're probably, like, I think of it as the dark matter of entrepreneurs.

The people who try for big missions and go for it and don't make it.

And we don't know who they are.

Their names are lost to history.

But they knew who they are and they know they gave it their all.

And for me, the choice was I'd rather be embarrassed in front of my friends.

I'd rather be in the dark matter of entrepreneurs than be 80 or 90 years old looking back and thinking, I would have loved to work on supersonic flight.

What would have happened if I tried?

Avicil Garg was at least the first person to say he believed in me.

This was somebody I'd gone to high school with in Cincinnati who had gone on, he'd sold a company to Facebook.

He'd been quite successful in his own right.

And I remember I was having lunch with him at the Facebook cafeteria when I was thinking about all this stuff.

And I kind of gave him the pitch.

And he says, Blake, you should do it.

And I was like, really?

No one else says that.

And years later, years later, he told me that he actually thought I was crazy.

But he could tell I was just so darn passionate about it.