Looking at their about page, these guys have a lot of aerospace experience: Lockheed, Boeing, Gulfstream, Scaled Composites (!), SpaceX, NASA, P&W, and more. I'm optimistic about this project. Hopefully they'll turn out more like SpaceX and less like Eclipse Aviation (also founded by a tech guy).
Founder Stories: Blake Scholl of Boom (YC W16)
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#12Building a plane is very costly. I believe Elon being a billionaire had a lot to do with success of SpaceX and Tesla.
I'm still skeptical on how far boom will go before having a working sellable plane.
Re: Founder Stories: Blake Scholl of Boom (YC W16)
#13Building a plane is very costly. I believe Elon being a billionaire had a lot to do with success of SpaceX and Tesla. I'm still skeptical on how far boom will go before having a working sellable plane.
Elon wasn't anywhere near a billionaire when he started SpaceX or invested in Tesla.
Re: Founder Stories: Blake Scholl of Boom (YC W16)
#14Building a plane is very costly. I believe Elon being a billionaire had a lot to do with success of SpaceX and Tesla. I'm still skeptical on how far boom will go before having a working sellable plane.
Elon wasn't anywhere near a billionaire when he started SpaceX or invested in Tesla.
I think Vern Raburn was when he started Eclipse Aviation. Company still lost a billion.
Re: Founder Stories: Blake Scholl of Boom (YC W16)
#15> Blake: I mean, far and away my favorite book is Atlas Shrugged […] Eehh. Atlas Shrugged is surely great in its own way, but I’m not sure it really is a great choice to be a favorite book.
I'm pretty sure it's one of the diagnostic criteria for egomania. "Only we, the very special people, can do the essential work that enables modern society to function. If you don't let us do it our way we'll just walk away and watch the world burn."
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#16> Blake: I mean, far and away my favorite book is Atlas Shrugged […] Eehh. Atlas Shrugged is surely great in its own way, but I’m not sure it really is a great choice to be a favorite book.
I came here to say exactly this ... perhaps this book should be on a classics list but I have no desire to reread it every few years. Books like that are in a completely different category and even within that category there are only a few I'd call my favorite.
Re: Founder Stories: Blake Scholl of Boom (YC W16)
#17This part was inspiring: And so we went from what could have been the biggest laughingstock at demo day, to the team who showed up with five billion in LOIs, a record that probably won’t be broken soon.
I thought that story was cool, but I was intrigued why he felt demo day was so important to their success. If anything, writings from Sam Altman and Paul Graham encourage one to focus on customers and product and ignore everything else.
They could have privately taken those LOIs to VCs and ended up with the same funding.