I dropped out of high school…Now I’m building a $1T dollar company

I look in the mirror and I'm like fat and dumb. And I'm like, if I want to have any chance of doing this, I have to go to the startup CEO equivalent of the gym. I don't at that point I don't think I could have sold a dollar bill for fifty cents. And I didn't know Jack about airplanes and so I'm like okay, like I need to become that person I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to

I'll put my all in it like my days off. On a roll, less travel, never looking back. So how does a guy who's slanging coupons on the internet become the founder of a supersonic jet company? Which, by the way, the one liner of what you're making is a commercial jet that flies thirteen hundred miles an hour versus Five hundred miles an hour. Well it takes you from it it would take you from where to where and how much time, like just take it Yeah, that that's what actually matters, right? It take you from uh New York to London and just over three and a half hours, Tokyo to Seattle and four and a half, uh LA Sydney about eight and a half, and that that's version one. We wanna go faster after that. Amazing. So my my backstory was I've loved airplanes since I was a kid. But because there was basically no innovation happening in in aerospace, it never occurred to me to have a career there. You know, so I sort of fell in love with computers, with the internet. My my first job out of school was Amazon. In two thousand one

My my parents didn't understand it. 'Cause that was they were like, Hey, we got you a computer science degree. Why do you want to work at a bookstore? But it was an amazing time to be there. After that, I was part of a um one of the ur very early uh mobile app companies. And then I want to do my own startup. And so I I looked at my resume and said, I know e commerce and I know mobile. So I should work on mobile e commerce.

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