Y Combinator Startup Podcast
00:11:23 · Anders Forslund, Gustaf Alstromer
[00:11:23] S1: And the same with hydrogen. The great thing about using hybrid electric is that it's a... It's already now at a at a at a significant, like, negative green premium. So you're surfing on a much bigger wave. The planes we're trying to replace, they're 40 years old. It becomes an appreciating asset. The plane will actually be better in ten years than when you buy it. It becomes like buying a house. [00:11:43] S0: 36 seats is only the beginning. [00:11:45] S1: We love to build bigger planes. The large market is the narrow bodies. The seven thirty seven is the A320. There's ridiculous backlogs. Somebody doing what SpaceX did with rockets on airplanes just makes sense. [00:11:59] S0: Longer term, the plane is built for a world with fewer pilots in the cockpit. [00:12:04] S1: A remote pilot that is supporting many aircraft, kind of like there's remote operators of the way most. Then we're gonna see autonomy happening in cargo where there's, you know, lower stakes and then, you know, eventually making its way into, to aircraft. Obviously, a lot less noise. There's a lot less vibration as well. There's gonna be more flights. There's gonna be cheaper ticket. So you're gonna be able to go [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.
00:12:31 · 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.