Blake Scholl
Blake Scholl is the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company he established in 2014 to develop supersonic commercial aircraft. He began his career as a software engineer at Amazon and later co-founded the mobile technology startup Kima Labs, which was acquired by Groupon in 2012. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is a licensed private pilot.
“Jeff Bezos passed on our seed round at Boom. And then he wrote the 2015 Amazon shareholder letter about how there's certain things that only big companies can do. And he cited airliners as one of these.”
Source→“I was a software engineer by training. We spent time at early Amazon. I founded an apps company that got acquired by Groupon.”
Source→“It doesn't come from like some well-meaning person trying to keep the public safe. It comes from some entrenched, frankly, lazy interest that doesn't want to have to compete and runs to DC or runs to the local regulator and tries to use the power of government to shut their competition down.”
Source→“Take Blake Scholl, the CEO of Boom Supersonic. Blake spent his early career working on ad tech at companies like Amazon and Groupon before deciding to work on commercializing supersonic flight.”
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