Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back

Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by jpm_sd on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:29PM (#12789289)

This company appears to consist of software engineers playing dress-up. There is no reason to expect them to succeed, and no market need that they are serving.

Edit: I have worked on several teams in the past where the leadership consisted of people who "don't know what can't be done". They hire a bunch of domain experts, then ignore and/or contradict them until the company runs out of money.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by abstractbill on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:38PM (#12789366)

From the article: "Today, Boom has 11 people, six of them pilots... Unlike Scholl, these folks have serious industry bona fides. Joe Wilding, the co-founder and chief engineer, was a standout at three aerospace startups, designing passenger planes from scratch. Andy Berryann, the head of propulsion, used to work at Pratt & Whitney, building parts of the engine for a supersonic fighter jet. Other employees came from NASA, Lockheed Martin, and a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, Scaled Composites."

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by Pamar on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:06PM (#12789605)

I am pretty sure they know how to design (and maybe build) airplanes. This will not automatically mean they will be good at selling them, or build a business around them.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by whiddershins on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:56PM (#12790034)

Isn't that the whole point of YCombinator?

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