$BOOM-SUPERSONIC · Boom Supersonic demonstrates supersonic flight without sonic boom, enabling regulatory change and commercial viability

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Blake Scholl: "The Future Was Supposed to Be Faster"

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Boom Supersonic demonstrates supersonic flight without sonic boom, enabling regulatory change and commercial viability

2026-07-28 · 1 company · 4 thematic

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Blake Scholl is the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company building the Overture supersonic airliner. He previously worked as a software engineer at Amazon in the early 2000s and founded a mobile e-commerce company acquired by Groupon. He started Boom in 2014 after teaching himself aerospace engineering, and the company's XB1 prototype became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier in 2024.

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“So how is it that something that used to take billions of dollars and thousands of people was suddenly done by a small team with a comparatively small budget? The key thing is to make hardware development look more like software developmen…”

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Boom Supersonic demonstrates supersonic flight without sonic boom, enabling regulatory change and commercial viability

By vertically integrating manufacturing, developing proprietary simulation tools (Makeboom, Bladeunner), and demonstrating mach cutoff technology that eliminates sonic booms, Boom…