Blake Scholl 🛫
@bscholl
Founder/CEO @boomsupersonic. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast.
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Sad to say @profgalloway is an investor in Boom. I don't mind disagreements but calling for an execution of a non-criminal (worse, an actual hero!) is a step too far.
Working to arrange a buy-out of his shares.
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Three major announcements today:
1/ our first supersonic turbine core is complete and shipping to test
2/ our 2GW Superpower Superfactory in south Denver is already making parts
3/ we are building our own advanced all-digital foundry to make single crystal turbine blades
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Today Boom unveils our first completed supersonic turbine core, a 2GW Superfactory, and—one more thing—the world's most advanced all-digital foundry to cast single crystal turbine blades and vanes
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Mark has been on an epic multi-decade quest to found a new business inside Meta, one that he didn’t acquire. No matter what happens he just keeps making bold bets.
Stay in the game long enough and eventually you win. Mad respect.
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Boom has been flagmogged by @2112Power. We must respond with more 🇺🇸. @kaiarhodes plz send help
Anatar set a new record by producing and installing this 32' x 62' American flag in two weeks for @HadrianInc. Sewn seams, sewn stars, and unbridled patriotism.
.@HadrianInc , @LockheedMartin & @GMDefense teamed up today to hyperscale critical munitions production alongside @USDASDuffey at Lockheed’s fantastic facility in Texas - a new chapter in the Arsenal of Freedom.
Lockheed and Hadrian signed a first of its kind, 7 year manufacturing-as-a-service agreement, with a whole Hadrian factory inside Lockheeds campus launching in January.
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Glad we have Big Government to protect us from… checks notes… Big Condiment
Hellmann's mayo
McCormick spices
Cholula hot sauce
Frank's RedHot
What do these products have in common? One company could soon control them all.
I have concerns that McCormick and Unilever's $45 billion merger could increase YOUR grocery prices.
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Boom Special Event next Thursday at the XB-1 Auditorium in Denver to celebrate a milestone and to make a major announcement.
DM me if you want to come, we are saving a few spots for X friends and fans.
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Imagine if Steve Jobs had launched the iPhone, but it was just a big screen with a picture of a Blackberry on it. 😂
So, Boeing decided to put a Microsoft Flight Simulator-style touchscreen FMC in a real 737 MAX?
If you believe distribution trumps product, your product might be FarmVille.
Pro tip: we can end inflation by stopping deficit spending and monetary expansion. This is critical to do because runaway debt inevitably leads to national bankruptcy.
Please someone run for office on this platform
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Founders: you’re either in POTUS’ phone as <firstname> <company> or you’re ngmi
-Blake Boom
you can’t possibly actually think i’m the same quality hang as tim apple
I’ll take @ycombinator for $400, Alex
When an employee shows poor performance, it's easy to think you saw their worst performance and you know all the problems.
But actually people show their bosses their best work. So when one thing is bad, rest assured all the other things are even worse.
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The waypoints on the arrival into Reagan National Airport
About 18 months after XB-1's last test flight, the team is back in a control room getting ready for our next big test event.
They're all pretty happy it's *not* in the Mojave desert this time.
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Great hanging with the inimitable @torybruno this morning @boomsupersonic.
Tory is a true mensch and has deep longstanding insights about how aerospace went so badly wrong with outsourcing—and what it takes to fix it.
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@bscholl great hanging out with you at @boomsupersonic this morning. Impressive progress.
