The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Episode 675: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) tell the three stories of founders with insanely high agency. — Show Notes: (0:00) Boom Supersonic (30:50) Nick Mowbray, #1 most impressive founder (43:43) The Moped King — Links: • Boom Supersonic - https://boomsupersonic.com/ • ZURU - http://zurutoys.com/ • Fly E-Bike - https://www.flyebike.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 The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	Okay, I have an amazing story. If you're, if you're entrepreneurial, Sam, if you have a pulse
0:05.2	in your body, if there is a single blood vessel in your body, you are going to be fired the
0:10.6	fuck up after this. I don't know what you got. What do you have scheduled after this?
0:13.4	Cancel it. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off.
0:21.4	On the road, let's travel.
0:22.5	All right, let's hear it.
0:23.4	What is it?
0:24.2	All right, so you probably heard of this company, boom, supersonic, yes?
0:28.2	Yeah.
0:29.1	I had the opportunity to invest in this company years ago, and I didn't have any money then,
0:34.9	but also, even if I did, I would have passed on this.
0:37.5	It's a ridiculous proposition.
0:39.9	I didn't have any courage in either.
0:41.3	That was the real problem.
0:42.6	Well, like a guy said that, a guy in Silicon Valley said he's going to build a commercial airline.
0:49.1	He's going to build a jet that can be a supersonic commercial airplane.
0:53.1	Right?
0:53.3	That sounds ridiculous.
0:56.0	Exactly. So the thing that's going viral right now is former like Groupon product manager because he worked at Groupon
1:02.4	is LinkedIn literally goes Groupon product manager then created the first Supersonic Jet in like,
1:09.2	you know, whatever, 56 years.
1:11.6	So it's this insane jump on LinkedIn, and that's kind of going viral right now.
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