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How I Got $5 Billion In Preorders For A Supersonic Jet Company

Name: How I Got $5 Billion In Preorders For A Supersonic Jet Company
Uploaded: 2025-05-07
Duration: 1 h 8 min 59 s
Description: Sam and Shaan interview Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic) about going from high-school dropout to Groupon to building a supersonic jet startup with $5B in preorders. They cover finding his 'red line', problems hidden in plain sight, the YC demo day where he sold Richard Branson, being a 'dark matter' founder, progressively overturning skeptics, and working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon.

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Sam and Shaan interview Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic) about going from high-school dropout to Groupon to building a supersonic jet startup with $5B in preorders. They cover finding his 'red line', problems hidden in plain sight, the YC demo day where he sold Richard Branson, being a 'dark matter' founder, progressively overturning skeptics, and working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon.