Bringing Supersonic Flight To The People

In this Social Radars episode we talk with Blake Scholl about one of the cleverest business model transformations in the history of startups: Boom's move into building gas turbines. When Rolls Royce pulled out as Boom's engine supplier, it seemed to many like fatally bad news. But instead it not only helped Boom solve boomless supersonic flight, but also enabled them to tap a huge new revenue stream to fund development of the airliner. Chapters: 00:00 — Rolls-Royce Walks Away 02:39 — The Breakup Goes Public 07:39 — Deciding to Build the Engine In-House 09:01 — The Brian Chesky Advice That Changed Everything 10:25 — Why Building the Engine Was the Right Call 11:06 — Unlocking Boomless Supersonic Flight 13:35 — The Problem of Funding a Supersonic Airliner 14:37 — The AI Power Shortage Creates an Opportunity 16:23 — Turning a Jet Engine Into a Gas Turbine 18:26 — Why Hard Tech Is So Difficult to Fund 21:20 — From Paycheck to Paycheck to a New Business 22:26 — Why America Stopped Building Power 25:56 — The Aerospace Industry Stopped Innovating 27:21 — Designing the Engine and Airplane Together 32:55 — Rethinking the Passenger Experience 39:03 — Rebuilding America’s Industrial Base Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

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