Dusseldorf More than two years ago, he was the first guest on the Handelsblatt Disrupt podcast and even then told of a pretty crazy idea: He wants to develop an air taxi that will fly back and forth between major German cities in a few years – at the prices of an ICE Tickets. It’s about Daniel Wiegand, the founder and CEO of Lilium.
His company went public last week. Not in Germany, but in the USA. Lilium only collected 584 million dollars and not the 800 million he had hoped for. The share price is also moving sideways, so great euphoria looks different.
Why the young company went public in the first place, why critics still do not believe that its jet can fly, how much the fire of a test pilot has thrown it back – and why many airlines are now also interested in air taxis, Wiegand discusses in one new edition of Handelsblatt Disrupt with Handelsblatt editor-in-chief Sebastian Matthes.
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More: The previous episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt can be found here.