Blake Scholl

Nathaniel Blake Scholl (born ) is an American tech entrepreneur. In 2014, he founded Boom Technology to develop a supersonic airliner.

Early life Scholl was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an electrical engineer father with German origins, and a French teacher mother.

Career Scholl worked for Jeff Bezos in the "early days" of Amazon. In early 2014, Scholl took aircraft design classes, built an aerodynamics model, and sought feedback from a Stanford professor, who reviewed his calculations and encouraged him to aim higher, saying his estimates in his spreadsheet model for supersonic flight were conservative. Scholl invested half of his share of the proceeds from the sale into his next venture, Boom Technology, which he founded later that year. The company's aircraft Boom XB-1 performed its first supersonic flight test in 2025.

Personal life Scholl obtained his private pilot license in 2007. He has four children.