They got $5bn in LOIs, a new YC record: https://twitter.com/sama/status/712705887853383680
$200M per delivery seems a little tight to design and build 25 planes from scratch (the latest version 787 is ~$300M for comparison) but I'm sure they have smart people working on it.
1) didn't have the manufacturing means themselves;
2) couldn't control the quality enough via contract measures.
That significantly drove up the cost of the 787 project. Someone really needs to do a good write-up on these two projects as today's version of the Mythical Man Month and similar texts.