Blake Scholl founded Boom Supersonic in
September 2014 with the goal of making high
speed travel mainstream.
Prior to founding Boom, Blake held leadership
roles at Amazon and Groupon and co-founded
mobile technology startup Kima Labs, acquired
by Groupon. He started his career as a software
engineer at Amazon in 2001, where he developed
software for personalized and automated
merchandising and later owned a $300M P&L
at age 24. Later, Blake was the first employee
and director of product development at Kleiner
backed mobile startup Pelago. In 2010, he co
founded mobile technology startup Kima Labs,
acquired by Groupon in 2012. At Groupon, Blake
held multiple executive roles, culminating in
responsibility for relevance, email, and search.
Blake’s interest in aviation started in childhood—
he grew up in suburban Cincinnati, where his
parents often took him to the local airport to
watch Cessnas take off and land. He started flying
for fun in college, earning his private pilot license
in 2008 and instrument rating in 2011. Blake holds
a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon
University. He lives in Denver and is a father of
three.