He's Bringing Supersonic Flight BACK - Blake Scholl

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Automate Compliance (and get $1,000 off!!) - https://vanta.com/luba Today I walk with Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic. Blake was roughly Amazon's 200th engineer, spent more than a decade building XB-1 into the first supersonic jet made outside a government or military, and got the US ban on supersonic flight repealed after breaking the sound barrier, and now he's scaling Boom toward carrying passengers in 2030. He gets into the six years Boom spent waiting on Rolls-Royce for an engine, and why that breakup turned out to be the best gift the company ever got. We get into: Why he'd rather be a "dark matter entrepreneur" who tried and failed than spend his life asking what if…