Jared Isaacman

Like, you know, and it's like you try and...

find opportunities to educate them in a, in that kind of a way as often as possible.

Um, yeah, I mean, I definitely want, and again, I'm very lucky cause my kids are, they're awesome and they're very grounded.

Um, and they do appreciate what they have in life and they, I think they do are growing up, you know, with something instilled in them that they have an obligation now to help others.

Um, but it doesn't just happen on its own.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I certainly wasn't preparing for any sort of political career.

If I had been, I probably would have done some things differently to prepare for it.

But no, I got a text message in late November.

Well, first of all, let me just say, as somebody who's

I've been always very apolitical and I generally felt like the system is kind of self-correcting that, you know, the forefathers did a pretty decent job putting enough checks and balances in place that things can't get too off the rails.

I don't know.

Maybe that was just easier to think that way, I guess.

Because things can get off the rails.

But anyway, that's just kind of how I lived most of my life.

I never had a reason to be actively involved in politics as a defense company.

Our service was in demand regardless of who was in office.

And my fintech, my day job, just never really required any lobbying or whatnot.

So...

Never really, you know, imagined it coming, although I always felt like I owed this country a great debt for living the American dream.