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What Blake Scholl thinks about startups

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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Blake Scholl has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingYou cannot find product-market fit for a supersonic jet by building one and seeing whether anybody likes it; it has to be worked out before anything is built.

    Their wordsYou can't get to product market fit on a supersonic jet by building it and seeing if anybody likes it. You have to analyze very carefully the art of the possible and also what will maximize the market opportunity.

    ↗Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jetyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

    product management

    Interesting

  3. Our readingIterating through outside aerospace suppliers is close to impossible, which is why a hardware startup should own its own machine shop.

    Their wordsone of the most important things we discovered along the way is it's extremely difficult to iterate with outside suppliers, particularly outside suppliers in aerospace, which are let's just say I have no kind words for them. So we chose to build our own machine shop. And now we can go from a digitally designed engine part to a prototype part in about 24 hours.

    ↗Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jetyoutube.com 12th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  5. Our readingGreat ideas are not all taken: many multi-billion-dollar businesses were buildable years earlier and nobody built them for no reason other than that nobody did.

    Their wordsThere are many many unsolved problems in the world, many great ideas hiding in plain sight that were actually solvable that could have been multi-billion or multi-t trillion dollar businesses a while ago, but nobody's building them and not for any reason other than nobody went and did it.

    ↗Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jetyoutube.com 14th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  7. Our reading“Why now?” is the wrong question to make a founder answer — the honest answer can simply be that you started now.

    Their wordsso I I deeply believe that you should pick a problem that you want to go solve in the world and don't worry too much uh about the answer to why now. Uh the answer to why now can be because I started now.

    ↗Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jetyoutube.com 15th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting