The company was founded by two people, one of them is an aircraft engineer. The other person is an inventor and visionary. They aim to have five thousand vehicles out there on the road with each generating about ten million dollars a year from ticket sales. But are they still happy? Adavacia: There's some bitterness that everybody is not happy at this point in time.
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Patrick Hessel, chief executive of Aeromobil, to talk about the company's flying car (4:10), why he thinks the world needs it (9:00), the business model (12:00), fender benders (14:40), trying to raise money (16:10), who they are marketing to (19:25), going from investor to chief executive (25:00), the EVTOL boom (26:35), and what keeps him up at night (32:40).
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