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The Social Radars

Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy are The Social Radars. Carolynn and Jessica have been working together to help thousands of startups at Y Combinator for almost 20 years. Come be a fly on the wall as they talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.

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“If you go by the state-of-the-art GE mid-sized turbine, it's called the LM6000. It is based on a 747 engine from 1971. … Boeing last built a new design airplane in 2004. … The entire time all of you have been alive, Boeing has built zero new airplanes. All they do is take the old ones and tweak them, and they don't even do that competently anymore.” — Blake Scholl, The Social Radars
Blake Scholl · 6 Nov 2026 Listen →
“One of my regulatory theories is that most regulations have two pieces. They have a moral cover story, like we must ban supersonic flight because sonic boom is really bad, or nuclear power is scary. But if you follow the money, you find there's some lazy incumbent that doesn't want to work hard.” — Blake Scholl, The Social Radars
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“If you take that fan off and put a little bit extra turbine connected to an electric generator, the engine that would make 40,000 pounds of thrust on a supersonic jet makes 42 megawatts, which turns out, by luck, is the perfect size for a modular turbine that you can put in at a data center like bricks. … This is like blade servers of energy.” — Blake Scholl, The Social Radars
Blake Scholl · 6 Nov 2026 Listen →
“One of the most disastrous decisions I ever made was to try and outsource development of a semi-custom supersonic engine to a big established company. And looking at it now with clear eyes, it's just so colossally stupid. Can you imagine SpaceX succeeding had Elon given the engine to some legacy rocket company and decided to build only the rocket?” — Blake Scholl, The Social Radars
Blake Scholl · 6 Nov 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Social Radars is hosted by Carolynn Levy .

Recent Episodes

  1. 6 Nov 2026

    Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO, Boom Supersonic: Part 2

    With Blake Scholl

  2. 21 May 2026

    John Coogan, Co-Founder & Host at TBPN

    With John Coogan

  3. 28 Apr 2026

    Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel: Silicon Valley Bank Crisis

    With Ron Conway

  4. 15 Apr 2026

    Justin Kan, Cofounder, Twitch

    With Justin Kan

  5. 19 Mar 2026

    Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator

    With Paul Graham

  6. 3 Mar 2026

    Peter Reinhardt, CEO & co-founder, Charm Industrial; CEO & co-founder, Segment

    With Peter Reinhardt

  7. 17 Feb 2026

    Tom Blomfield, Partner, Y Combinator; Co-Founder, Monzo

    With Tom Blomfield

  8. 3 Feb 2026

    Spenser Skates, Founder & CEO, Amplitude

    With Spenser Skates

  9. 20 Jan 2026

    Christina Cacioppo, Founder & CEO, Vanta

    With Christina Cacioppo

  10. 7 Jan 2026

    David Kirtley, Founder & CEO of Helion Energy

    With David Kirtley

  11. 30 Dec 2025

    Jared Friedman, Partner, Y Combinator; Co-founder, Scribd

    With Jared Friedman

  12. 23 Dec 2025

    Jessica & Carolynn Announce Season 5!

Guests

Ron Conway (5 episodes), Paul Graham (3 episodes), Brian Chesky (3 episodes), Tyler Shultz (2 episodes), Christina Cacioppo (2 episodes), Blake Scholl (2 episodes), Garry Tan (2 episodes), Emmett Shear (2 episodes), Haya Odeh , Alexandr Wang , Eric Migicovsky , Kyle Vogt , and 41 more.