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Goldstein: Full-stack eVTOL models are too operationally complex to be profitable
“So the challenge with being an OEM, and an operator, and, a demand aggregator, an infrastructure player, you know, a pilot training company, a maintenance company, that's a lot of stuff to do at once. It's very hard to actually build a real business that will …”
Goldstein: Airplane startups require at least $1 billion in capital
“To build airplanes, it's extremely expensive. You're not even in the game without a billion dollars. Because it takes a huge team for many, many years to really develop core technologies that can be safe, reliable, and ultimately, like, put into production.”
Goldstein: Scaled electric engines enable multi-propeller redundancy in eVTOLs
“There are multiple sets of propellers, and the you know, ability for electric engines to be scaled really far down gives you an ability to build an aircraft with lots of redundancy, and that's what those multiple sets of engines propellers really represent.”