Chief Commercial Officer @FlyArcher ✈️🔋 • Co-founded & sold @Uber Elevate • Investor & advisor • Fmr @mckinsey, @nasa, @youtube, @xbox • 📍NYC + CA

New York, USA
Some personal news... ✈️🔋 When @MarkMooreNASA, @jeffholden, and I co-founded @Uber Elevate, we had a clear vision to radically transform cities with urban, on-demand aerial ridesharing. Since then, the world’s top investors, manufacturers, aerospace giants, auto companies, and airlines have put over $10B in capital towards this goal, surpassing even our wildest expectations. Since leaving Uber and selling Elevate, I've had the privilege of working closely with @AdamGoldstein13 and the @flyarcher team as an advisor over the last several years. I’ve been continually impressed by how rapidly the team has advanced — our Midnight aircraft is impeccably designed, now at the final stages of FAA certification, and we expect to start flying passengers in New York City and more in 2025, starting with a $1B order from @United Airlines. So I'm excited to officially join the team as Chief Commercial Officer and help bring electric aviation to market, both domestically and abroad! We're hiring across the board, so DM me if you'd like to join the team. And, if you’re a former industry colleague, please don’t hesitate to reach out — I’d love to reconnect.
We're excited to announce Uber Elevate Co-Founder, Nikhil Goel (@ngoel36), has joined Archer as our Chief Commercial Officer as we prepare to bring Midnight to market in 2025. “Having recently traveled around the world to the largest international markets and seen firsthand how strong the demand for our aircraft is outside the U.S., it’s clear that now is the right time to make this strategic hire and bring Nikhil on to capitalize on the sizable opportunity for domestic and global expansion.” - Adam Goldstein (@adamgoldstein13), Archer Founder and CEO. Learn more: archer.com/News/archer-hires…
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Texas, we want to help you skip the traffic, trading hours on the road for minutes in the air. Today we unveiled planned air taxi networks in Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth and Austin, designed to turn 60–90 minute drives into 10–20 minute flights on our all-electric air taxi, Midnight. To give Texans a closer look, we’re putting Midnight on display in the Fan Zone at @F1's US Grand Prix in Austin this weekend. archer.com/news/archer-unvei…
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Press play to look back at some of Midnight's greatest hits from the Northern California leg of the "No Roads" flight tour. Thank you to every city, every airport and every Archer teammate who made this leg of the tour possible. Time to pack up and head South to Los Angeles.
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Over the past week, Midnight made its way from Salinas to Oakland through progressively larger cities with more complex airspace, then completed multiple piloted flights over the San Francisco Bay. The goal: show our electric air taxi can operate seamlessly in the complex airspace around San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose's international airports. Mission accomplished. That’s a wrap on the Northern California leg of the "No Roads" Flight Tour. Los Angeles is up next. archer.com/news/archer-compl…
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Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco skyline. Alcatraz. Midnight. Our most iconic setlist yet. This is the “No Roads” Flight Tour.
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Mountain View → Hayward ✅ Midnight has entered the East Bay. No tolls, no traffic. Just epic views and another city added to the “No Roads” Flight Tour.
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This flight over Silicon Valley goes out to the legends who made this the place where big ideas take off. Midnight just touched down at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View. Another stop on the “No Roads” Flight Tour is in the books as we get closer to the headliner over the San Francisco Bay.
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So pumped for @jeffholden who's been an incredible mentor and friend to me over the last decade. Very excited that Atomic Machines is finally out of stealth and the world can see what the team is building: nytimes.com/2026/10/07/scien…
After six years in stealth, Atomic Machines is out. Our mission: on-demand, universal command of matter. First beachhead: the Matter Compiler, an AI-native manufacturing system that builds working micro-machines from code alone. No per-product tooling. No process development. Different code, different machine.
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Big thanks to @FastCompany for including Archer on their "Next Big Things in Tech" list. The real credit goes to our engineers, pilots and rest of our team who are working hard every day to build the future of aerospace and defense. fastcompany.com/91612660/tra…
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🎥 Tour diary: Salinas. Every tour has a stop that just feels different. For Midnight, that was this past weekend flying for the crowd in Salinas - the airport that's played home to our flight test program for the past several years. For the second year running, Midnight took to the sky at the California International Air Show, sharing the bill with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, Goulian Aerosports, and a lineup of icons including the MiG-17, T-33, and A-37 Dragonfly. Hundreds of Archer team members turned out to enjoy the show with the community that's been with us from day one. The "No Roads" Flight Tour continues to San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond.
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So pumped for @zebulgar and the @VardaSpace team. Proud to keep supporting with th ex-Uber crew. 🚀💪🏽
Earlier this year @Lux_Capital pre-empted our Series D and we were excited to lean in and raise $250m! In 2014, I was raising for my first co, Lux was the only VC that invited me to a full IC... but passed because it wasn't ambitious though Thankfully space drug factories is :)
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Congrats Stan and team! Incredible to see drone delivery finally getting to market.
This is DoorDash Air. As a pilot, I can tell you that you wouldn’t build a plane and then ask if it can carry cargo. So we built @DoorDash Air from the ground up, designed around what 13 years of deliveries have taught us: what people order, how much it weighs, and how far it has to travel. Our drones are as silent as a passing car and early tests show that we’ve gotten flight delivery times in under ~5 mins on average, so you can get your @chipotletweets & @popeyes (our first partners) and local favorites right to you, fast. The first deliveries will be in NorCal. We proved autonomy works on the ground. Now see how it works in the sky.
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Huge congrats @SamCorcos and team!
Big release for the IRS mobile app! You can now: 1. Check your refund status 2. Mobile payments 3. Access tax records 4. See notices from IRS 5. Update settings to receive less paper More features to come!
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Our Africa and Middle East Leadership team was on the ground in Addis Ababa this week to meet with @flyethiopian Group CEO Mesfin Tasew and his leadership team to advance our partnership and bring electric air taxis to Ethiopia. Ethiopia has been one of our earliest and most committed partners in Africa, and we're excited to work hand in hand with Ethiopian Airlines and the Government of Ethiopia to build out an electric air taxi ecosystem positioning Addis Ababa as a launch point for eVTOL travel across the continent. Thank you to Mesfin Tasew and the entire Ethiopian Airlines team for the continued partnership. More to come soon.
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Texas doesn't do anything small, including how it welcomes the future of flight. Proud to be part of Project Nexus, @TxDOT's eIPP program safely preparing the skies for next-gen aircraft across the state and beyond.
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Great to see the industry come together as we start to kick off the eIPP here in Texas. Thanks to @SecDuffy and @tedcruz for your support. No doubt the US is leading the way in aviation innovation thanks to your leadership.
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Great to be in Dallas today as we announce our plans to bring eVTOL charging to Texas ♠️✈️🔋
♠️ ACES in Texas ♠️ Electric aviation requires charging infrastructure to support it. With Texas preparing for operations under the White House’s air taxi pilot program, there couldn’t be a better time to start building. America's Consortium for Electric Skyways (ACES), launched by Archer, @BETA_aircraft and @Macquarie Capital, plans to bring our interoperable charging network to Texas to support @TxDOT’s operations under the White House's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP). We plan to work with TxDOT over the coming months to identify where charging infrastructure should be best located to enable operations. archer.com/news/archer-beta-…
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Proud to see two of @flyarcher's regional leaders recognized on @AVB_ME's "A-Lister Power List 2026." Dr. @TalibMAlhinai, our UAE GM, continues to drive the regulatory groundwork, infrastructure partnerships and program preparation that will bring Midnight to the UAE. And Archer's MENA Advisor, Captain @FahdCynndy, has been instrumental in building our momentum in the region by advancing our work across the Kingdom. Both are playing pivotal roles in positioning the region as a global AAM leader. Well deserved. aviationbusinessme.com/listi…
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Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. On the heels of more than 70 test flights with Midnight in August and our recent successful roundtrip flight from Salinas to Monterey, we’re launching the ‘No Roads’ flight tour as as part of our participation in the White House’s Air Taxi Pilot Program (eIPP) and preparation for the LA28 Games. The tour is expected to include Midnight flights in Monterey, Hollister, San Martin, San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco and around the Los Angeles area, as well as flights in Texas and Florida. archer.com/news/archer-launc…
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⚡ Pair of Aces ⚡ Archer and @BETA_aircraft are working together to lead the ACES charging infrastructure consortium bringing the industry together with a plan to electrify up to 250 air taxi sites across the United States in the coming decade. The approach behind ACES is what makes this network viable in a way no single company could deliver alone. As founding launch partners, we'll work to bring additional infrastructure, OEM partners and capital into the network so the industry can scale together. archer.com/news/archer-aviat…
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