Yeah, technology.

What is it all about?

So you're going to have a Lillium app and that works initially in a few cities, ultimately globally.

And you can book the jet on this app.

And it works like a ride-hailing service with the difference that you're getting an aircraft.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and

inside the minds, the top people in tech. This is episode one of two this week. So if you check

your feed, you should have two new ones in there, and they are both about in different ways,

the future. For this one, I managed to grab a bit of time with Daniel Weekend, the founder

of Lillium, which you may have never heard of, but if he has his way, we will all know about

Lilium soon. It could become one of those

apps, like Uber or Netflix or Amazon. What does it do? Flying cars, obviously. Lillium is, I believe,

the best-funded air taxi startup in the world. They've raised $100 million, planned to raise

hundreds of millions more. And this last week, they published footage of their five-seater

prototype flying around looking like an airworthy human transporter. The company is based in

Munich and their goal is in the not too distant future to have an app where in a few swipes, you could hail an air taxi at the same cost on a per mile basis of an Uber.

And that sounds crazy, not least because he's a first time founder.

And you may recall last season we had the head of Uber Elevate on this program. They also

were working on air taxis, although they are not developing their own aircraft, whereas

Lillium is. And Lillium basically wants to become an Uber competitor. So lots to play for. It's a

really interesting story, and I will let Daniel explain why he thinks they can pull it off.

So without further ado, here he is.

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