Quit Amazon to start a $1B airline company: Blake Scholl on building Boom Supersonic

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Blake Scholl is the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the company revolutionising air travel with supersonic jets.
Blake openly shares the mindset shifts that helped him overcome rejection and industry skepticism, transitioning from a software engineer at Amazon to leading an aerospace company valued at more than $1 billion.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser
0:54 - His early career, 14 years in tech
2:12 - "People have to declare big things for big things to actually happen."
3:31 - Working at Amazon with Jeff Bezos, the lessons he learned there
7:38 - What led him to transition from a corporate job to starting Boom
8:20 - Why he quit his stable job at 33, with newborn twins and a toddler daughter
9:06 - How much money he saved for his startup
9:44 - How he managed his time with family while building a startup
10:30 - How he started a company without formal education
12:57 - How he moved from theory to practice
14:30 - Challenges in hiring the right people
15:50 - "When I told people I was building a supersonic jet, they said, 'Are you crazy?'"
17:18 - Why you shouldn’t listen to industry experts and should check the information yourself
19:20 - No one can tell you what you’re capable of, except yourself
19:56 - The failures that can turn out to be winning moments
20:33 - The hardest day at Boom
21:17 - 3 weeks from bankruptcy – What separates a successful founder from a failing one?
22:00 - Why 99% of startups fail
22:30 - How close they are to launching
24:00 - Legal bans and challenges that stopped them
26:12 - How everything can change in just 4 weeks
26:20 - How to navigate the challenge of 3x the carbon emissions that jets use
28:58 - The costs of flying on a supersonic jet
30:18 - Why increasing speed is important and how it can drive growth in other fields
32:45 - How he manages work-life balance while working at a startup
33:35 - "The world is really open to supersonic right now. We have to move fast. I haven't had a day off in 4 months."
34:40 - The story behind the Trump photo
37:00 - Advice for someone who’s stuck with their idea of building a startup but is facing obstacles
38:00 - Stop being afraid of failure
39:18 - What he would say to the younger version of himself

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