Jared Isaacman
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's like, it's like.
I mean, but that's what's so cool about it, right?
Is like people do, no matter where you are in the world or at some point or another, you're lying back in a field and you're looking up at those stars and your mind wanders.
And that's, it's such an awesome thing, right?
Well, you know, the company I started when I was 16 is what helped enable a lot of these things, a lot of these adventures I've been able to go on, my aviation career, my space career.
But, you know, when I was nominated,
to lead NASA, you have to do a lot of separation from your business affairs.
My president of that company became CEO.
I'm chairman of the board now, which means
One day a week, a couple of weeks a quarter, I'm really involved.
But the rest of the time, I can be focused on other interests, which this past summer has been the first time since I was a teenager that I had no real professional obligations.
It was kind of cool.
And it felt really great to be able to still be young enough to have a whole new chapter, whether it was in government service or elsewhere.
So yeah, I guess I'd say I don't put it anywhere.
When it was my full-time job, it had to consume the majority of my thoughts.
Now it does not.
No, because the company is in a really excellent place, there couldn't have been a better time to get nominated to go into a whole new direction in life.
The business is killing it.
We have an incredible leadership team, tons of firepower, lots of demand, good opportunity, good products.
There was no better time to...