Aeromobil's Patrick Hessel: "This is a car that flies"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Patrick Hessel, chief executive of Aeromobil, to talk about the company's flying car (4:10), why he thinks the world needs it (9:00), the business model (12:00), fender benders (14:40), trying to raise money (16:10), who they are marketing to (19:25), going from investor to chief executive (25:00), the EVTOL boom (26:35), and what keeps him up at night (32:40).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:17.7	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:24.7	How are you all doing?
0:26.6	I'm good.
0:27.8	I'm here.
0:28.8	I'm back for another week.
0:30.9	And this week, we're talking flying cars because why not?
0:35.7	I mean, where else are you going to get this array of subjects?
0:38.9	Last week we had the world's first beverage printer.
0:42.9	Week before that, we were talking designer babies.
0:45.9	Then it was quantum computing, big tech crackdown, burgers made out of mushroom roots.
0:51.2	And this is all just like in the last month.
0:53.2	So I do really try hard to keep it lively.
0:56.4	Keep it interesting for you all.
0:57.8	Keep it surprising.
0:59.0	So I ask, just before we get going today, take a moment.
1:02.7	Please give a rating, give a review.
1:05.6	It's always a huge help.
1:07.4	Helps other folks find the show.
1:09.5	Thank you.
1:10.7	But now, as I said, flying cars.
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