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Blake Scholl
Blake Scholl (born c. 1981) is an American tech entrepreneur. He founded Boom Technology in 2014, the first private American company to build a plane that flies at supersonic speeds in 2025.[1] Early lifeScholl was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an electrical engineer father and a French teacher mother.[2] A high school dropout,[3] he won a scholarship for early entry into Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in computer science.[2][1] CareerScholl worked for Jeff Bezos in the "early days" of Amazon.[2] He then cofounded Kima Labs, a mobile technology startup that was acquired by Groupon in 2012.[1][4] In early 2014, Scholl took aircraft design classes, built an aerodynamics model, and sought feedback from a Stanford professor, who reviewed his calculations and encouraged him to aim higher, saying his estimates in his spreadsheet model for supersonic flight were conservative.[5] Scholl invested half of his share of the proceeds from the sale into his next venture, Boom Technology, which he founded later that year.[6][4] He has been the CEO of the company since October 2019.[7] The company's aircraft Boom XB-1 performed its first supersonic flight test in 2025.[8] Personal lifeScholl obtained his private pilot license in 2007.[9] He has four children.[3] References
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