52:07The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
From My First Million · Published Jul 4, 2025 · Watch on YouTube
TL;DR
Blake Scholl dropped out of high school, got into Carnegie Mellon via a special program, then worked at Amazon under Bezos before quitting to start companies. His pivotal move was building a spreadsheet to validate that supersonic air travel was economically feasible with ~30% efficiency improvements over the Concorde.
Key insights
- Scholl's high-agency pattern: dropped out of high school, found Carnegie Mellon's program for dropouts, wrote an essay saying "high school had nothing left to teach me," got in with a merit scholarshi
- At Amazon he built an auto-bidder to make Amazon the top Google ad spender, running a $300M P&L by age 24, then quit despite guaranteed wealth from staying.
- He validated the supersonic jet idea with a spreadsheet and a book on flight, concluding only ~30% improvement in fuel efficiency was needed because 50 years of technology progress made it feasible.
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