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I dropped out of high school…Now I’m building a $1T dollar company

2025/5/7
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My First Million
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Blake Scholl: 我从小热爱飞机，但航空航天领域缺乏创新，让我转向计算机和互联网。我曾在亚马逊工作，后创办了一家移动电商公司，但由于对产品缺乏热情，最终将其出售给Groupon。这段经历让我意识到，创业需要选择自己真正热爱的领域，并全力以赴。我开始学习航空知识，并设想自己退休后回顾航空史，思考超音速飞行的发展历程。这促使我创办Boom Supersonic，致力于研发超音速飞机。我利用第一性原理思维，对超音速飞行的成本、时间节省和市场规模进行了量化评估，并通过数据分析，证明超音速飞行是可行的。融资过程中，我意识到风险投资公司更倾向于短期回报的项目，因此我通过与维珍航空合作，获得了意向订单，从而成功融资。在公司发展的过程中，我始终坚持不放弃，并通过设定具有挑战性的目标，激励团队不断前进。 Sam Parr: (无核心论点，主要为引导访谈) Shaan Puri: (无核心论点，主要为引导访谈)

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Episode 704: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr) ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP) ) talk to Blake Scholl ( https://x.com/bscholl) ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Find your red line

(4:29) Problems hidden in plain sight

(13:00) The making of Boom Supersonic

(23:00) No rules of thumb

(29:13) Blake's favorite interview question

(34:22) Demo Day at YC

(38:13) Selling Richard Branson

(47:46) Being a dark matter founder

(52:14) What does the most ambition of yourself look like?

(55:51) Progressively overturning of the skeptics

(1:01:06) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon

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Links:

• Steal Shaan's $20M Pitch Deck: https://clickhubspot.com/wem)

• Boom - https://boomsupersonic.com/) 

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd)

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/)

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/)

• Copy That - https://copythat.com)

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth)

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/)

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano