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

2026-07-28 · 2 company · 9 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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“we discovered along the way that because we had made a choice to vertically integrate our own propulsion we were able to take the engine that we were building for supersonic flight and sell it separately on the ground as a natural gas powe…”

—blake scholl

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