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There are so many people for so many years who told me, you can't do that.

That's crazy.

My mother used to throw me out of

Thanksgiving dinner and be like, stop talking about that goddamn airplane thing.

With beta, Kyle Clark is ensuring the next frontier for electric vehicles isn't the streets. It's the

skies. Beta Technologies isn't in the business of making EVs for celebs to fly around.

They're making aircraft to do the less flashy but plentiful work of logistics and medical transports for now.

Beta's aircraft are zero emission when flying, and the company is building them from a plant often cited as the largest

net zero manufacturing facility east of the Mississippi River.

The company passed 130,000 nautical miles flown and is expanding its network of charging

stations.

It has 123 so far.

I spoke to Clark about his journey from flight obsessed kid to pro hockey player to

founder and CEO. We also talked about range anxiety, beta stock, and where the company is headed.

All right, so tell us about your company. It is flying cars, electric helicopters. What is it? How does it work?

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