Blake Scholl 🛫

Founder/CEO @boomsupersonic. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Boom! We cracked it! Today we are introducing Boomless Cruise—supersonic flights up to 50% faster with no audible sonic boom.

We quietly (har har) demo'd this on XB-1's first supersonic flight—three times actually. 🧵👇

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Jeff started Uber’s self-drive effort 10+ years ago. Then Dara shut it down, a decision that is aging quite poorly.

[Jeff Holden @jeffholden]

@bscholl Uber's calculus now is almost the inverse of what it was during the @travisk era, when we were building the future of transportation and our own disruption in the form of self-driving.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@paulg I was very confused for moment as I was trying to figure out how this post connected to old school dialup Internet.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Latest insanity: going after autonomous vehicles *because* they use electricity.

This is the decel crowd that supports electrification right up to the moment it becomes practical, then oppose it.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@skdh @elonmusk @mark_k �� and who is hiding behind these? Anthropic? China?

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

A fun thing Tesla could do: map pot holes and generally measure road quality/ride smoothness.

Then rank municipalities on road quality and how quickly they fix potholes. Some good ol’ fashion competition might help make things better!

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@laurenlself I’ll be the first angel investor

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Aileron problem: “They don’t see me rollin’”

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@tonsing @billythalheimer @regentcraft Too close to first Boom engine tests!

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@paulbohm Paging @jeffholden

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Regulatory capture is evil. Shame on all of them if this is true.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Uber is joining forces with taxi drivers to "slow down" rollout of robotaxis

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@Chris_Kaminsk1 It’s a completely different set of people now, and I don’t think that’s how the learning really works anyway.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@beffjezos Really it’s the same axis as freedom vs tyranny

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@StephenFleming The levels of safety are not equivalent. They are far better.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@AlphaKate3 @DJSnM @boomsupersonic Actually they are the same scale and mostly the same engine

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@MichaelWhitmir8 @ellioclips @elliotrades @boomsupersonic Not anymore: https://t.co/TMK9J6m068

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@kevinace Dara's decision to shut down all the "moonshot" projects Jeff Holden launched under @travisk will not age well.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

It’s game over. Actually it’s been game over for awhile, just less obviously so.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

My Cybercab rides are more than 50% cheaper than Uber rides.

Cost for this 15 minute ride:
• Uber: $21 (including tip)
• Model Y: $16.99
• Cybercab: $9.65 (54% less than Uber)

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

A couple of weeks ago I toured @boomsupersonic with @bscholl and got to see their first engine core in person.
It’s great to see this being built even if the supersonic airliner is still a thing of the future.

https://t.co/FdCr5r5lQK

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@beffjezos The interesting question is: why?

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

@GavinSBaker Casually very based leadership @JensenHuang, prevents AI doomers from complete regulatory capture