Top 15 Blake Scholl Quotes

If you insert enough socialism in capitalism but keep calling it capitalism, people get fed up with the problems socialism causes but blame capitalism and then turn socialist.

Unpopular opinion: self-made billionaires are great. More people should aspire to that level of value creation.

I started Boom knowing literally zero people in aerospace. Networks are built naturally when doing something interesting—they are not a precondition.

Dear billionaires: next time you’re tempted to speak humbly that you were lucky, instead tell a story about how you worked long, smart and hard.

You’ll be doing a favor to every young person who wants to know what it really takes to create at scale.

Unpopular opinion: we should have more toll roads. In fact, every road should be a toll road.

Get rid of every other road tax and charge for usage. Rush hour usage should have surge pricing. This is the only scalable solution for traffic congestion.

Skeptics: I’ll believe it when I see it
Builders: I believe it, so I’ll make it

Pretty soon, driving yourself will be as absurd and illegal as riding a pony on the interstate.

Just like there are places where people who love horses can go ride them, there will be places for humans who like to drive cars to drive.

Pro tip: if you are ambitious and driven you will always work hard. So work on the biggest idea you can imagine. The effort is the same but the rewards are much, much better.

PS my first company was a barcode scanning game.

Entrepreneurs should have high tolerance for pain and low tolerance for annoyance. Much opportunity lies in solving what others find annoying—and much pain must be tolerated on the path to success.

Defensiveness is a learning disability. If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, it’s impossible to learn and grow.

Few realize how much the world around us can be improved. Most things could be better—usually significantly better.

Part of becoming an entrepreneur is learning to see “not good enough” everywhere.

Bad managers optimize for large team size. Great managers are proud of how much their team accomplishes relative to its small size.

Don’t let anyone—most importantly yourself—tell you what you can’t do

It always amazes me how cell service inversely correlates with neighborhood quality.

Rich people: I don’t want your ugly cell tower
Also rich people: why doesn’t my phone work?

We need more YIMBYs

Every technology—from the plow to the tractor to the steam shovel—has made humanity more human. Has freed us from cyclic, repetitive work, and enabled us to be more creative. And to do the most human thing of all: to leave the world better than we found it.

As technology has advanced, fewer have toiled for basic necessities and more have become scientists, engineers, inventors, artists, thinkers.

I believe AI will prove to be the *most* humanizing technology yet. AI enables anyone with an idea or a vision to become a creator. To leave behind something new, to add to the sum of human creation.

Buckle up, we're in for an amazing future.