Rob Wiesenthal

speaker

234 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

Rob Wiesenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

When I started the company, I specifically did not name the company Blade Helicopter.

It was called Blade Air Mobility because we knew the battle on the ground wasn't going to happen in the air.

And the biggest impediment to growth is noise.

With less noise, you have more places to land.

That's why if you come to New York, where we're lucky enough to have Blade Lounge East, Blade Lounge West, Blade Lounge Wall Street, where helicopters land, they're all on the water.

And they used to be in areas where there weren't a lot of people.

Now, Hudson Yards is phenomenal.

But basically, this was a deserted area that eventually gentrification encroached to it.

So the heliport is still there.

So it really is a little bit like City 2.2 because on the west side, we have 50,000 people that live and work and recreate in Hudson Yards.

So we knew early on that there was going to be a point.

In order to grow the business, we had to add to the convenience because if you want to go somewhere and you can jump on any type of vertical aircraft across the street, you're more likely to do that than if you have to get into an Uber and go to a Blade Lounge 20 minutes away.

So there are heat maps all around these different lounges.

And one of our biggest routes, as you may know, is going from the west side or the east side to either JFK and Newark Airport.

We do that six days a week, 12 hours a day for the price of a Uber Black, sometimes less.

So $195, even sometimes it's $95 if you purchase an annual airport pass.

That is a four and a half minute to eight minute flight, depending if you're going to JFK or Newark.

And we know it probably could take be a two hour drive.

So that's a game changer and probably the very first use case for Joby's aircraft here.

But we also knew that there was going to be a cohabitation phase.

Showing 41–60 of 234 · page 3 of 12