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Blake Scholl

Nathaniel Blake Scholl (born c. 1981) is an American tech entrepreneur. In 2014, he founded Boom Technology to develop a supersonic airliner.

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• Blake Scholl - Wikipedia

  | Blake Scholl | | Scholl in July 2024 | | Born | 1981 (1981) (age 45) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | | Education | Carnegie Mellon University | | Occupation | businessman | | Title | Founder and CEO, Boom Technology | Nathaniel Blake Scholl (born c. 1981) is an American tech entrepreneur. In 2014, he founded Boom Technology to develop a supersonic airliner. ## Early life [edit] Scholl was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an electrical engineer father with German origins, and a French teacher mother. A high school dropout, he won a scholarship for early entry into Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in computer science. ## Career [edit] [...] 1. 1 2 3 Coates, Philippa (January 29, 2018). "How Boom founder Blake Scholl plans to start supersonic flights by 2023". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved October 6, 2020. 2. 1 2 Neate, Rupert (August 27, 2022). "Boom founder Blake Scholl: from high school dropout to supersonic high-flyer". The Observer. 3. 1 2 Vance, Ashlee (October 6, 2020). "Aviation Outsider Builds Supersonic Jet for Transatlantic Flight". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved October 6, 2020. 4. 1 2 Brady, Diane (December 13, 2023). "Meet The Man Whose Product Could Take 16 Years To Launch". Forbes. 5. ↑ Hersey, Will (May 28, 2019). "Concorde 2.0: Can An American Start-Up Bring Back Supersonic Passenger Flight?". Esquire "Esquire (magazine)"). [...] ## Career [edit] Scholl worked for Jeff Bezos in the "early days" of Amazon "Amazon (company)"). He then cofounded Kima Labs, a mobile technology startup that was acquired by Groupon in 2012. 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. Scholl invested half of his share of the proceeds from the sale into his next venture, Boom Technology, which he founded later that year. He has been the CEO of the company since October 2019. The company's aircraft Boom XB-1 performed its first supersonic flight test in 2025. ## Personal life [edit]

• Speaker Details: 2025 Global Aerospace Summit

  Blake Scholl is founder/CEO at Boom Supersonic, which he founded in 2014 with the goal of making supersonic flight mainstream. Boom has built and flown XB-1, the first-ever independently-developed supersonic jet and the first new civil supersonic airplane since Concorde. United, American, and Japan Airlines have placed orders and pre-orders for 130 Overture supersonic airliners. Prior to founding Boom, Blake held leadership roles at Amazon and Groupon and co-founded the mobile technology startup, Kima Labs (acquired by Groupon). He started his career at Amazon as a software engineer in 2001, where he invented an automated ad buying system that in 2004 was responsible for more than 5% of revenue at both Amazon and Google. [...] x #### Speaker Details Full Name Blake Scholl Job Title Founder and CEO Company Boom Supersonic Speaker Bio [...] Blake Scholl

• Blake Scholl — Founder & CEO | Boom Supersonic

  Blake Scholl founded Boom Supersonic in 2014 with the goal of making high-speed travel mainstream and enabling a new world of human connection. Blake is passionate about tackling big problems which the world has overlooked. After seeing Concorde in a museum, he became captivated by the question: why had supersonic travel disappeared—and how could it return? Driven by curiosity and conviction, Blake dove into aerospace engineering from first principles, ultimately assembling a team that would bring the vision for Boom to life. As Boom’s founder and CEO, Blake focuses on uniting top talent across disciplines to solve one of the most complex engineering challenges of our time. He is passionate about tackling overlooked problems with global impact—and building the teams capable of solving [...] global impact—and building the teams capable of solving them. Prior to founding Boom, Blake held leadership roles at Amazon and Groupon. He started his career at Amazon as a software engineer, where he developed software for personalized and automated merchandising, and by age 24, was responsible for initiatives that generated $300 million in revenue. Blake pioneered the automation of digital ad buying, enabling advertisers to build their own “long tail” by promoting niche products to relevant customers. Later, Blake was the first employee and director of product development at Kleiner-backed mobile startup Pelago. In 2010, he co-founded mobile technology startup Kima Labs, which was acquired by Groupon in 2012. Blake held multiple leadership positions under Groupon’s ownership before [...] leadership positions under Groupon’s ownership before leaving to start Boom. Blake’s love of aviation started early—he grew up in suburban Cincinnati, where his parents took him to the airport to watch Cessnas take off and land. He began flying in college and holds a private pilot’s license with an instrument rating. Blake earned a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in Denver and continues to enjoy flying in his free time with his four children.

• Blake Scholl

  - In 1969, we landed on the moon and flew Concorde. Half a century later, we could do neither. Blake Scholl founded Boom Supersonic (YC W16), the startup building America’s first supersonic airliner, to change that. At Startup School 2026, he shares how a cardboard mockup with Office Depot seats became XB-1, the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, and why founders have to build for both the worst day and the best day. ...more ...more None View Post Activity Image [...] - We're hiring for an Electrical Engineer based out of our Centennial, CO office. You'll build the low voltage electrical backbone of the Superpower platform, a first of it's kind 42MW gas turbine that will power AI data centers. Reach out if you're interested. 😀 Blake Scholl liked this View Post Activity Image - Blake Scholl returned to YC give a talk today (thanks for the invite!). He’s a great storyteller with an even more impressive company Boom Supersonic Blake Scholl liked this View Post Activity Image [...] # Blake Scholl Boom Supersonic Denver, Colorado, United States, US 500 connections, 32984 followers ## About Founder/CEO at Boom Supersonic<br><br> Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to… ## Experience N/A ## Education ### Carnegie Mellon University N/A 1998 - 2001 None ## Publications N/A ## Honors & Awards N/A ## Certifications N/A ## Volunteering N/A ## Languages N/A ## Organizations N/A ## Activity - I deeply believe the future will better than the present—but it isn't automatically better, someone has to make it. Many times "someone" is startup people—founders and early employees. One of my favorite things is to speak to founders, and my goal is to inspire everyone to be more ambitious. ...more Blake Scholl shared this View Post Activity Image

• Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl: Remember skills are changeable - passions are not | World Economic Forum

  Today's leader, Blake Scholl. He's the CEO of Boom Supersonic, and he'll talk about the passion that changed his life and how supersonic aviation could finally make sustainable flights a reality. Subscribe to Meet The Leader on Apple, Spotify and wherever you get your favourite podcasts. And please take a moment to rate and review us. I'm Linda Lacina from the World Economic Forum and this is Meet the Leader. Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic: Capabilities are very changeable, knowledge is changeable, but passions are not. "Capabilities are very changeable, knowledge is changeable, but passions are not." [...] This episode of Meet the Leader was presented and produced by me with Juan Toran as studio engineer, Jere Johannson as editor and Gareth Nolan driving studio production. That's it for now. I'm Linda Lacina with the World Economic Forum. Have a great day. With a background in software engineering and ad tech, Blake Scholl has an unusual CV for an aviation CEO. However, his singular passion for aviation drove him to learn this sector and eventually found a sustainable aviation company with flights twice as fast as what's offered today. Founding Boom was one of several crossroads moments in Scholl's life that drove home to him that knowledge and skills are adaptable and changeable, and there to support our passions. [...] So I would encourage leaders to be very future minded, even if interest rates are telling us to be very short -term minded. Linda Lacina, Meet The Leader: That was Blake Scholl. Thanks so much to Blake. And thanks so much to you for listening. A transcript of this episode and my colleagues' episodes, Radio Davos and the Book Club podcast, is available at wef.ch/podcasts. If you like this episode, check out episode 56 with Space Tech CEO Chris Kemp. He's a former NASA CTO, focused on growing the space economy. He'll share what he's learned from a range of roles, including one where he built a shopping tool for Kroger. He also shares what running Astra has taught him about resilience and one of life launching rockets has taught him about failure.

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  1/1/1981

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