#225 Blake Scholl - Founder & CEO of Boom Supersonic

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 148 minutes

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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

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0:00.0	Blake Scholl, welcome to the show.
0:07.4	It's good to be here, Sean.
0:08.4	Thank you for having me.
0:09.4	It's good to have you.
0:10.6	Another innovator.
0:12.1	I love being around you guys.
0:13.8	I mean, it's just been interviewing a lot of innovators here in recent history.
0:21.5	And, man, you guys are just incredible and fascinating and motivating to be around.
0:27.6	So thank you for coming.
0:29.2	I love what you're doing.
0:31.7	Well, thank you.
0:32.7	It's honored to be here.
0:34.6	I got a question.
0:36.1	How long did it take you to get here from Denver? It's about two hours
0:39.5	and ten minutes. Two hours and ten minutes? If all the flights are about that long, we'd be doing
0:44.8	okay. You're not flying on the new jet, huh? Not yet. You know, we, uh, I have committed I will be in
0:53.8	the first test flight myself.
0:55.9	Uh, so that, that I'm very much looking forward to.
0:58.6	And I, I joke. So we just finished with our, our XB1, our sort of our one third scale
1:03.3	demonstrator airplane. And I'd love to go, you know, hotwire that thing. I make it my own
1:07.4	personal airplane. I'll bet you and just about everybody else would love that.
1:12.7	But, well, hey, I want to get in to how you got into this and all about what you're doing right now.
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