Patrick hestel is the founder and CEO of Soyit, a company that plans to make flying cars. He has been working on the project for more than two years in an effort to get it ready for commercialization. The first test flights were done over four days with real planes at St Carlo's Air Museum - where this interview will take place.
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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