Blake Scholl (born c. 1981) is an American tech entrepreneur. He founded Boom Technology in 2014, the first private American company to build a plane that flies at supersonic speeds in 2025.[1][2]

Early life

Scholl was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an electrical engineer father and a French teacher mother.[3] A high school dropout,[4] he won a scholarship for early entry into Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in computer science.[3][1]

Career

Scholl worked for Jeff Bezos in the "early days" of Amazon.[3] He then cofounded Kima Labs, a mobile technology startup that was acquired by Groupon in 2012.[1][5] In early 2014, Scholl took aircraft design classes, built an aerodynamics model, and sought feedback from a Stanford professor, who reviewed his calculations and encouraged him to aim higher, saying his estimates in his spreadsheet model for supersonic flight were conservative.[6] Scholl invested half of his share of the proceeds from the sale into his next venture, Boom Technology, which he founded later that year.[7][5] He has been the CEO of the company since October 2019.[8] The company's aircraft Boom XB-1 performed its first supersonic flight test in 2025.[9][10]

Personal life

Scholl obtained his private pilot license in 2007.[11] He has four children.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Vance, Ashlee (October 6, 2020). "Aviation Outsider Builds Supersonic Jet for Transatlantic Flight". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "Blake Scholl - Agenda Contributor". World Economic Forum. Archived from the original on 2025-01-19. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  3. ^ a b c Coates, Philippa (January 29, 2018). "How Boom founder Blake Scholl plans to start supersonic flights by 2023". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Neate, Rupert (August 27, 2022). "Boom founder Blake Scholl: from high school dropout to supersonic high-flyer". The Observer.
  5. ^ a b Brady, Diane (December 13, 2023). "Meet The Man Whose Product Could Take 16 Years To Launch". Forbes.
  6. ^ Hersey, Will (May 28, 2019). "Concorde 2.0: Can An American Start-Up Bring Back Supersonic Passenger Flight?". Esquire.
  7. ^ Kluger, Jeffrey (January 19, 2025). "This CEO Wants to Bring Back Supersonic Passenger Travel". Time.
  8. ^ "Blake Scholl". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  9. ^ O'Hare, Maureen (January 28, 2025). "Boom: America's answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight". CNN Travel.
  10. ^ Batchelor, Tom (2025-02-05). "Boom's Overture to be airborne in 'four years'". AGN. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  11. ^ Vanderbilt, Tom (December 20, 2021). "Boom's Quest to Make Supersonic Flights a Reality (Again)". Wired.
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