Blake Scholl
Everything Blake personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"The first supersonic air-to-air live stream filmed on an iPhone, streamed via Starlink — and of course, the most importantly, legalizing supersonic flight in the US."
▶ 12:01"We had the first supersonic installation of Starlink so people around the world could tune in watching a video filmed on an iPhone streamed via Starlink."
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"There's a lot of engineering hardware engineering that happens in Excel spreadsheets on engineers laptops in a silo"
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"Long before Spotify or Napster, music started to become global."
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"He was laughed at internally and laughed at by his board when he launched Amazon Web Services."
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"Bill said his goal for Microsoft was to put a personal computer in every home and on every desk running Microsoft software. And this was at a time where personal computers mostly didn't exist. Microsoft did that and then some."
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"In building Uber, Travis basically ignored the regulators and built his service anyway, built a fan base of customers who he could use against the regulators that were trying to shut him down."
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"I was lucky to start my career at Amazon in 2001. One of the things that was great about Amazon culture is they built their own business software to run their own business. I think that is a part of why Amazon was able to be the winner in e-commerce — they had software that fit the business operation like a glove."
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"My knowledge about airplanes was limited to a pilot's license. I could fly a Cessna."
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"I'd founded an apps company that got acquired by Groupon."
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"The obvious thing seemed to be that it would be a private jet, a business jet made by somebody like Gulfstream for the wealthiest people on the planet."
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"A supersonic airliner mockup made of cardboard, plywood, and seats from Office Depot."
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"Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, started the company in the 1960s on a chance trip to Japan when he fell in love with Japanese style running shoes. And Nike got their start importing Japanese running shoes to America."
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"Long before Spotify or Napster, music started to become global."
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"This is the Boeing 707. This is the airliner that brought us into the jet age."
"This is the 787, their latest airliner, which by the way was launched more than 20 years ago. You can't spot the difference. It doesn't fly any faster. It doesn't make the world any more accessible."
"They certified the 737 Max, which had a single sensor that had complete authority over the nose up, nose down attitude of that airplane. No intern is dumb enough to think that's a good idea. And yet, it got all the way through the certification system."
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"In 1969, we landed on the moon for the first time and the same year we flew Concorde, the faster than the speed of sound airliner."
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"One of the dumbest things I ever did was try to outsource our engine development to a big old company. And that plan didn't work out. And we broke up with Rolls-Royce very publicly and people said we were doomed."
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"Imagine a whole bunch of engineering specialists each working in an Excel spreadsheet on their own discipline and then handing off the results of analysis from one engineer to another. The spreadsheet engineering is like baby software. It's really code, but it's getting treated like a second-class citizen with no automated integration, no automated testing, no continuous integration."
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"It now takes Lockheed more than two years to build a new Patriot missile interceptor. This is crazy. This is no way to build the future."
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"Very complex spreadsheets sometimes like VBScript code and all of this is actually software but it's treated as if it's not software"
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