Rob Wiesenthal

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Rich Habits Podcast · Robots, Rockets, and Air Taxis w/ BLADE CEO (Rob Wiesenthal) · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, it made no sense.

So the thought was if I could use mobile technology to aggregate people going to the same place at the same time, there might be a business there.

And the first thing that came to mind was the friction that you have in the summer with people going to resort areas out on the island in the East End, particularly the Hamptons, and the ability to take –

a three to five hour drive and turn into a then 35 minute flight.

And that was the birth of Blade.

It started for $50,000.

We incubated it while I was at Warner Music.

And then after a tremendous first summer where it was profitable that first summer, that next year, I really wasn't happy on the trajectory of the company and I thought it could be much bigger.

And

I decided to do it full time.

And then we took off from there, raised money from people that I've worked with before, like Barry Diller and David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery.

Eric Schmidt from Google and others, all people I worked with in business and technology who were super helpful.

And we then expanded it to the medical business and became the largest air transporter of human organs in the United States.

That business actually ended up getting larger and

Then Blade itself with over $200 million of revenue and close to around $35 million, I believe, current year estimated by analysts to EBITDA.

We took the company public.

And then last year, as you said, we sold the passenger division to Joby.

The blade that is just medical remains public and it's called Strata Critical and is doing really well.

But right now I'm CEO of the Blades Division for Joby and I'm chairman of Old Blade, which is now called Strata Critical, which is that really terrific medical company that really saves lives and improves outcomes for people all over the country for heart, livers and lung transplants.

Well, the infrastructure, you know, latest profitable today and the infrastructure we have accommodates helicopters, right?

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