#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

2025-08-07 · 144 min · 15 entities

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Link in episode "#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic": https://roka.com/
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Link in episode "#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic": https://shawnlikesgold.com/
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Link in episode "#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic": https://blackbuffalo.com/
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Link in episode "#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic": https://roka.com/
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Link in episode "#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic": https://shawnlikesgold.com/
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Link in episode "#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic": https://blackbuffalo.com/

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co-founded Kima Labs
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Blake Scholl is the Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company he started in 2014 to revive commercial supersonic flight with the Overture airliner, designed to fly at Mach 1.7 and carry 64–80 passengers. A Carnegie Mellon University computer science graduate (BS, 2001), Scholl began his career as a software engineer at Amazon, later owning a $300 million P&L at age 24, and co-founded Kima Labs, acquired by Groupon in 2012. Inspired by seeing Concorde in a museum, he self-taught aerospace engineering to launch Boom, which achieved the first privately developed supersonic flight with the XB-1 demonstrator in January 2025. With orders from United, American, and Japan Airlines, Scholl aims to make sustainable supersonic travel mainstream using 100% sustainable aviation fuel, targeting passenger flights by 2030. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://americanfinancing.net/srs NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org https://tryarmra.com/srs https://betterhelp.com/srs This episode is sponsored. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. https://meetfabric.com/shawn https://shawnlikesgold.com https://hexclad.com/srs https://hillsdale.edu/srs https://ketone.com/srs Visit https://ketone.com/srs for 30% OFF your subscription order https://ROKA.com – USE CODE SRS https://trueclassic.com/srs https://USCCA.com/srs https://blackbuffalo.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices