Y Combinator Startup Podcast
00:12:31 · Gustaf Alstromer, Anders Forslund
[00:12:31] S0: to your neighborhood airport and take a plane in the way you actually could in the past. It's also why Heart is building it here in LA, the new center of gravity for this kind of company. [00:12:41] S1: This is the ground zero, the most historic place when it comes to aviation. You have the new space ecosystem that's kind of coming from SpaceX. You know, companies don't build planes, people do. Just a moment of seeing seeing it literally take off. This is obviously a moment I've imagined imagined for the last seven years. And even seeing it going down the runway is kind of gives me the goosebumps. So it's... Hopefully, I'll get a moment where I kind of start seeing the forest for all the trees kind of thing. [00:13:11] S0: When this airs, you will have flown the largest electric airplane in the world. Come a long way from demo day seven years ago. [00:13:17] S1: Oh, man. It's... I'm so grateful that you got that opportunity, and now the day is here. [00:13:22] S0: It's gonna be amazing. Seven years of hard work finally led to this. Their first flight on Wednesday, August 12 in Plattsburgh, New York. If you start a new hardware startup today Yeah. Everything that you know about building heart and your entire career, how how would you get started? [00:14:06] S1: I'm a pretty good duck. Right? Like, know a little bit how to swim. I know a little bit how to fly, and I know a a little bit how to walk. And that's enough for me to know when I find somebody that's [00:14:17] S0: great.
00:14:17 · Gustaf Alstromer, Anders Forslund
[00:14:17] S0: great. [00:14:17] S1: I would never start a company based on the fact that I wanted to have a company or be a founder. I would start because I really enjoy, you know, a problem. If we can get stuff that is lower emission, lower cost, lower pollution, just better quality of life. We should be doing it.