After Living In A Hippie Community, He Worked On The Perfect Landing Of Air Taxis For 12 Years. Here Is The Story Of California's First Air Taxi Billionaire

A brilliant mind and innovation. This is a real entrepreneur who can design, put into practice, test, and starts from scratch until the donuts come out with the hole.

This is JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby Aviation. An electric air taxi startup based in Santa Cruz, California. A company he founded and became a billionaire.

But the road for JoeBen was by no means smooth, there were tight and winding curves.

I’m just saying, he has done over a thousand remotely piloted test flights of his battery-powered five-seat aircraft prototypes. There were moments of frustration for him in which he never believed he could do great things …

But, he did it and today he’s the Mark Zuckerberg or the Elon Musk of air taxis. All thanks to his principles and way of doing things that teach everyone a great lesson. As you continue reading I will explain it to you so that you too, can use it.

For now, let’s find out more about his life. Where does he come from and what experiences has he had. Because he’s really a character, we’ll talk more about that later.

Imagine, a little while ago he claims of flying 150 miles on a single charge of the aircraft’s battery: this is the longest distance any electric air taxi has ever traveled.

HE WANTED TO BUILD PLANES FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE

Bevirt grew up in a remote area called Last Chance. His family was part of a Hippie community where members grew their own food.

They did this on land purchased in 1970 by his mother, Paula Fry, his father, Ron Bevirt, and writer Gurney Norman.

In short, he grew up in an environment of humble people, nothing close to technology and progress. A way of living tied to the past and frozen in time.

Perhaps it played a key role in his ability to have vision and imagination. Creating the ability to go outside the box of his current world and think in his own way.

“In fact, Bevirt explained that he first thought of building a flying machine in second grade”.

He did this on his way home, trudging up a steep 4.5-mile road along the Pacific Coast Highway. In short, a tiring stretch he was forced to walk, every day because the bus left him far from home.

“It was an endless hill and it made me dream of a better way to get around”, Bevirt said.