Rob Wiesenthal

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

It's not like a light switch where the day that the Joby aircraft is certified and ready for commercial service, all the helicopters are going to go away.

Obviously, the tolerance in terms of making sure the aircraft is right for people, safety issues, you don't have, obviously, the body of statistics in terms of

the kind of operating conditions that can go in.

You're now operating in the wild.

So you're going to see people kind of going back and forth between using Joby aircraft and helicopters.

And at some point there will be a transition where the very short distance stuff like the airports will be Joby aircraft with maybe a longer distance like the Hamptons or certain areas in the south of France, say Monaco to Saint-Tropez or Newport.

Geneva to Courchevel will still be helicopters.

And then over time, as you know, battery capacity and longevity is increasing exponentially all the time.

There will be a complete swap out.

And that's why we were asset light.

We never owned any aircraft ever at Blade.

What we do is we enter into capacity use agreements with our operators.

They have to meet our specifications on pilot hours, 1,000 hours for a Blade pilot versus a 150 for most people to be able to fly, use our livery, pass our safety, financial wherewithal tests.

We have a very deep safety team at Blade and even more so now with Joby.

These are technology and softwares.

They don't have to worry about accounting, marketing, credit card disputes.

We handle it all.

But we're deciding where those aircraft are going and how they're used.

And they're also exclusive to us.

Yeah.

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