I dropped out of high school…Now I’m building a $1T dollar company

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Episode 704: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Blake Scholl ( https://x.com/bscholl ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup. — Show Notes: (0:00) Find your red line (4:29) Problems hidden in plain sight (13:00) The making of Boom Supersonic (23:00) No rules of thumb (29:13) Blake's favorite interview question (34:22) Demo Day at YC (38:13) Selling Richard Branson (47:46) Being a dark matter founder (52:14) What does the most ambition of yourself look like? (55:51) Progressively overturning of the skeptics (1:01:06) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon — Links: • Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/wem • Boom - https://boomsupersonic.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	I look at the mirror and I'm like fat and dumb.
0:02.0	And I'm like, if I want to have any chance of doing this, I have to go to the startup CEO equivalent of the gym.
0:07.0	At that point, I don't think I could have sold a dollar bill for 50 cents.
0:11.0	And I didn't know Jack about airplanes.
0:13.0	And so I'm like, okay, like I need to become that person.
0:16.0	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:18.0	I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days
0:23.2	on a road. Let's travel. Never looking back. How does a guy who's slaying coupons on the internet
0:28.6	become the founder of a supersonic jet company? Which, by the way, the one liner of what you're
0:33.0	making is a commercial jet that flies 300 miles an hour versus 500 miles an hour, right?
0:39.5	It would take you from where to where and how much time.
0:42.5	Like just take it.
0:43.3	Yeah, that's what actually matters, right?
0:44.7	It take you from New York to London and just over three and a half hours, Tokyo to Seattle
0:49.0	and four and a half, L.A. Sedney, about eight and a half.
0:52.1	And that's version one.
0:53.2	We want to go faster after that.
0:55.0	Amazing. So my back story was I've loved airplanes since I was a kid, but because there was
0:59.9	basically no innovation happening in aerospace, it never occurred to me to have a career there.
1:04.1	You know, so I sort of fell in love with computers with the internet. My first job out of school was
1:07.8	Amazon in 2001.
1:15.3	My parents didn't understand it because that was, they were like, hey, we got you a computer science degree.
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