[ExI] QRE: World’s fastest post-Concorde jet goes to first buyer

[John Clark]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>>…Depending on how many bells and whistles you want, this business jet
>> will cost between 78 and 82 million dollars and will require between 3 and
>> $5 million a year for operation and maintenance; it's hard for me to
>> imagine a business that couldn't find a better way to invest that much
>> money, especially now that we're standing at the foothills of the
>> Singularity.  I think business executives should fly coach on spirit
>> airlines, assuming they actually need to get somewhere and can't accomplish
>> what needs to be accomplished with just a zoom call. *
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> *> Oh there are plenty of good reasons for CEOs to haul their butts around
> to various factories and such. *
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*Are CEO butts so magical that they're worth $80 million? I don't know this
for a fact but I wouldn't be surprised if there is an inverse relationship
between the number of private jets a corporation owns and operates and how
innovative and fast growing it turns out to be. I do know that when
Microsoft was experiencing its greatest rate of growth the company owned no
private jets, for years Bill Gates traveled on commercial jets, he didn't
even spring for a first class ticket, he traveled coach.  *


> *> Having a CEO show up and give a pep talk at the factory is better than
> a zoom call.*
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*A CEO showing up at a factory will not only interrupt production but
likely instigate rumors of mass layoffs and decrease morale not increase
it. *

*  > **The workers really like it when the boss shows up. *
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*To each their own, all I know is that before I became "a gentleman of
leisure" I never liked it when my boss started looking over my shoulder as
I worked.  *

* John K Clark*
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