Jared Isaacman

Two years is a long time in that world.

It's the same thing with SpaceX.

You're like, well, four years ago, they barely put astronauts in space.

They've done over a dozen commercial space missions right now in just a short span of time, not to mention caught a skyscraper with chopsticks from a building.

Things happen quick.

And we started to see that a lot, I think, in the last years I was at Draken, which made me really...

I mean, really concerned about their pace of progress while we were stagnating.

Man, man.

Well, so in 2008, I did a world record flight and it was just speed around the world.

It was just a fun challenge.

I wanted to do it and did also to raise funds and awareness for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

And when I came back from that, I was invited to go to Baikonur, Kazakhstan by Peter Diamantis, who's

He's like a serial entrepreneur, but very forward-thinking, brilliant guy, like MIT, MD.

He's like, do you want to come and see this commercial?

It's a Soyuz launch from Baikonur, but it's going to have a commercial astronaut on it, Richard Garriott.

I was like, do I want to go to Russia, Kazakhstan to see a rocket launch?

Yes, of course.

I wound up going with a lot of the early pioneers of the commercial space industry, including a lot of the SpaceX guys.

And by the way, that is so cool.

If you go to a rocket launch, a human rocket launch at NASA Kennedy Space Center, the closest you'll get is about three miles away.