Blake Scholl is founder/CEO at Boom Supersonic, which he founded in 2014 with the goal of making supersonic flight mainstream. Boom has built and flown XB-1, the first-ever independently-developed jet to break the sound barrier and the first civil supersonic airplane since Concorde. United, American, and Japan Airlines have placed orders and pre-orders for $26B in Overture aircraft, representing 5+ years of production. Blake previously held engineering and product management roles at Amazon and Groupon.

Brad is the Founder and CEO of Altimeter, a leading technology investment firm based in Silicon

Valley that manages public and VC investment portfolios. Brad has worked in technology for 25 years - as a securities lawyer; a founding principal at the VC firm General Catalyst; and a three-time Founder where he raised significant venture funding and sold all three businesses (to IAC, Google and Marchex); and as a Portfolio Manager at PAR Capital. He was born in Indiana, studied at Wabash College, Oxford University, Indiana University School of Law and Harvard Business School. He has personally participated in more than 100 IPOs as a sponsor, anchor and investor. Brad’s notable investments include: Zillow, Snowflake, Mongo, Bytedance, Hubspot, Cerebras, Tabular, Anduril, K2 Space, and Glean.

Brad is also a former deputy secretary of state of Indiana and a pilot. The Altimeter name reflects Brad’s belief that clarity, happiness and success requires boiling it down to the essential - your core instrument. Altimeter’s mission is its core instrument: to help visionary entrepreneurs build iconic companies, disrupt markets and improve lives through all stages of growth.

Philanthropy

Brad is the Founder of Invest America, a foundation focused on shrinking the wealth gap, teaching financial literacy, and re-igniting a belief in free market capitalism. Invest America promotes legislation to establish a 401k-like investment account at birth seeded with $1,000 in the S&P 500 for each of the 3.7m children born each year. Brad helps fund Give Forward, a family foundation focused on public education reform, poverty relief and other initiatives aimed at giving more kids a shot at the American dream.

Podcast

The BG2 Podcast. Brad and Bill Gurley co-host a bi-weekly conversation on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism.

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