Boom Supersonic

3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2026 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about Boom Supersonic, oldest first

Apr 17, 2026 negative
Opinion
Sam Lessin: Boom Supersonic's original plane business could never work practically
“Like in terrible business, it's like a very nice vision in the Elon style, like cool, like Concord two point out, but like from a practical perspective, it's like no fucking way is this going to work. No way is this going to work.”
Sam Lessin Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 12:23 Allbirds Pivoted to AI Data Centers | SpaceX $1.5T IPO, Anthropic $800B, $175M Seed Rounds
Apr 17, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Lessin: Boom Supersonic pivoted to supplying turbines for AI data centers
“And then AI, I think AI probably helped them with this, that they have a turbine they can use to run data centers, power for data centers. So they're not a supersonic company. They're just a jet engine company because they couldn't get anyone to sell them jet …”
Sam Lessin Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 12:58 Allbirds Pivoted to AI Data Centers | SpaceX $1.5T IPO, Anthropic $800B, $175M Seed Rounds
Apr 17, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Boom Supersonic investors will probably make a fortune from pivot
“People who invested in it are actually gonna probably gonna make a ton of money, but completely for the wrong reasons.”
Sam Lessin Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 13:13 Allbirds Pivoted to AI Data Centers | SpaceX $1.5T IPO, Anthropic $800B, $175M Seed Rounds
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