Hard Aerospace, a Y Combinator company, is working on fully electric planes, targeting regional flights which are currently losing money and are heavily subsidized by the government.

After FlightCar, I knew I was going to start another company, but this time I was going to be much more thoughtful about it.

FlightCar was born from the idea of car-sharing at airports, allowing travelers to rent out their cars while they were away, fully insured.

I'm Chris Power, CEO and founder of Hadrian, and we build automated factories for the aerospace and defense industry, serving major companies like SpaceX and Andril, as well as startups aiming to scale quickly.

After sharing his ideas with his friend Max, they built a prototype of our first product in a garage, which led to the decision to turn it into a company.

We had to be scrappy at FlightCar, even resorting to undercover operations to meet customers and park their cars without drawing attention to our business.

Our team of about 50 people was able to build the entire airplane, demonstrating that small, high-caliber teams can achieve what larger teams cannot due to the constraints that breed innovation.

After FlightCar, I joined Airbnb as a product manager to learn how successful companies operate and to gain insights into building a great product.

In the early days of FlightCar, we launched without a parking lot by using a local BART station, which led to rapid growth but also caught the attention of the BART police due to the number of cars parked there.