Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue
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Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week, I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. Who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Leave us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. Alright, let's get to it. Joining me this week is David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue, which he founded in 1998. David is also the founder of Azul, which is now one of the largest airlines in South America, and
He's also the founder and CEO of another airline in the US. It's called Breeze Airways, which began operating in 2021. David, it's great to have you back on the show. Always great to talk to you, guy. Ah so you've been on the show I think three times in the past. You were first on Back in 2019, uh, when of course you shared the story of how you started your first airline, which was Morris Air, which was acquired by Southwest. And then you got up you ended up getting fired by Southwest, but then you launch Jet Blue
uh and turned it into this incredible business and then you got fired from that and then you started another airline In South America and another one called Breeze. It's just An incredible story. We will put a link to it in the show notes if you guys have not heard that episode. It's really, really, really good. Uh it's just an amazing story. So thank you for coming back onto the show, David. Um Uh before we get to today's callers.
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