How I Got $5 Billion In Preorders For A Supersonic Jet Company

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Episode 704: Sam Parr ( x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Blake Scholl ( x.com/bscholl ) about he went from high school dropout to Groupon to the founder of a supersonic jet startup.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Find your red line
(4:29) Problems hidden in plain sight
(13:00) The making of Boom Supersonic
(23:00) No rules of thumb
(29:13) Blake's favorite interview question
(34:22) Demo Day at YC
(38:13) Selling Richard Branson
(47:46) Being a dark matter founder
(52:14) What does the most ambition of yourself look like?
(55:51) Progressively overturning of the skeptics
(1:01:06) Working with Jeff Bezos at Amazon


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Links:
• Boom - boomsupersonic.com/


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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
• Shaan's weekly email - www.shaanpuri.com/
• Visit www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire global talent (like Shaan does) and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than their US equivalents.

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - copythat.com/
• Hampton Wealth Survey - joinhampton.com/wealth
• Sam’s List - samslist.co/

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