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The Times Tech Podcast

Archer Aviation’s Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein: “The world is rooting for our air taxis”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein, co-founders of Archer Aviation, to talk about their air taxi startup (6:00), starting out in recruiting (9:00), how they pivoted to flying cars (12:30), setting up an aeronautics lab (18:20), designing a plane (21:30), finding a billionaire backer (30:00), and then United Airlines (33:00), launching by 2024 (37:45), working toward test flights (41:10), the talent war (42:10), unveiling a plane that hasn’t flown (45:10), what air taxis will be able to do (49:15), and the adoption period (54:40).

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0:00.0

Yo, technology.

0:02.9

What is it all about?

0:04.4

And then there's just like new startup age in aviation that we haven't really seen before, right?

0:09.6

It's hit almost every other industry, but there's not like a lot of startup aerospace companies.

0:13.6

Yeah.

0:13.9

And so now here's a chance to do that.

0:32.1

Yeah. 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.

0:36.8

I'm your host, Danny Ford's in the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.

0:38.6

How are you all?

0:45.2

Guys, I'm just days away from holiday. Days.

0:50.7

Very soon, I'll be sitting poolside, drinking some rum-based concoction, I hope.

0:54.9

So I will be off next week, but that does not mean there will not be a show.

1:01.1

In fact, we have a fabulous one coming for you next week. And all I will say is that it will blow your mind. Literally, that's a hint. But I will say no more. And anyhow, this week,

1:07.3

we are talking about something else entirely. Air taxis, that's right, flying cars.

1:14.7

So long-time listeners will know that this is an area of fascination for me. We've had Mark Moran

1:19.9

a couple years back. He ran Uber Elevate, which was their air taxi kind of division that Uber

1:25.9

later got rid of. We had Daniel Wygand, who's the founder of

1:29.2

Lillium in Germany. They've created a pretty cool-looking flying car, air taxi, whatever you want to

1:33.6

call it. Point is, it's been a sector where there's just been a ton of investment. Lots of different

1:38.5

types of aircrafts have been designed and tested, but none, I repeat, none have made it to market

1:44.0

yet. But all of a sudden,

1:47.4

there's a whole lot happening as we get closer to that point. So Joby Aviation, they've been at this

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