Boom Supersonic
also referred to as: boom
21 statements across 4 episodes · 15 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 7, 2018 by Paul Buchheit · said 56 times in 8 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Blake Scholl (31), Jared Friedman (12), Paul Buchheit (7), Garry Tan (2), Michael Seibel (1), Dylan Field (1), Derek Thompson (1), Aaron Epstein (1)
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2026 31 mentions in 1 episode
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 12 mentions in 1 episode
2018 7 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Boom Supersonic, oldest first
Mar 7, 2018 bullish
Mar 7, 2018 positive
Sep 20, 2019 bullish
Hard-tech startups find recruiting and fundraising easier than standard software startups
“While launching the product is easy, turning the product into a really big company is actually really hard. Whereas with Boom, it's exactly the opposite. Building a supersonic jet is, like, incredibly hard, but everything else around it is really easy.”
Dec 22, 2025 neutral
Tan: Boom Supersonic is using jet engines to power AI data centers
“Boom supersonic, instead of making supersonic jets right now, is on this good quest to create enough power for a bunch of these
AI data centers that are being built right now.
They use jet engines and even those like are so bad, you know, the supply chain for …”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Jul 28, 2026
Scholl: Jeff Bezos passed on Boom's 2015 seed round
“One of my very many failed investor pitches was in 2015 when Jeff Bezos passed on our seed round at Boom. And then he wrote the 2015 Amazon shareholder letter about how there's certain things that only big companies can do. And he cited airliners as one of the…”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Scholl: Supersonic flight legalization passed the US House unanimously
“After the executive order, a bill dropped in the House and the Senate to make the supersonic legalization permanent. It passed the House Unanimously. And just last week, it got out of the Senate Commerce Committee again with a unanimous vote.”
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Scholl: Boom's proprietary software cuts engine blade design time to real-time
“And Blade Runner allows us with really just a couple engineers to change a blade design in real time and see exactly how it's going to behave structurally and aerodynamically. This reduces literally to real time, a process that previously would have taken doze…”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026 neutral
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Scholl: The FAA approved Boom's XB-1 flight permit in just 90 minutes
“The approvals process for XB-One, that even for an R&D airplane can stretch on for months, actually happened in 90 minutes. From when we said we think we're ready to fly, and FAA said, here's the paperwork, we agree, go. We got the first ever permit for flying…”
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Scholl: Boom needs more software engineers post-AI because development costs dropped
“At Boom, we need far more software engineers in a post AI world. They would need it in a pre AI world. Why? Because the cost of software development has dropped. Anybody, including hardware engineers can now become a coder. And we need software engineers to ma…”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
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Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Scholl: Boom engineers must consult experienced practitioners before solving known problems
“It is totally ok for a young engineer to do something they've never done before, just the way it's ok for them to do something that nobody has ever done before. But, ah, but if somebody has done it before in the world, ah, a rule is you have to go find one of …”