Jared Isaacman

So this company, these guys came in from a company called Merchant Services.

And this is in New Jersey.

And they were doing credit card processing.

And this is in 1999.

And, you know, they were trying to – they had some virus issues on their computers, but they were also trying to figure out what this whole e-commerce thing was, being able to, you know, enable people to buy things on the internet.

And so I, you know, that became a lead for my company.

I was like, well, I have nothing here to sell you to fix this, but –

Here's my card.

And so they called, and my father had to drive me because I didn't even have a driver's license to their offices.

And they offered me a job.

And I convinced my parents to let me leave school and do it.

And it's not because, like, as a kid, I dreamed of someday growing up and running a fintech.

Like, nobody's like, when I grow up, I want to be...

I want to run a payments company.

No, when I grew up, I wanted to be an astronaut or a pilot, which is way cooler.

But I learned enough.

So yeah, I wound up going and working there for six months.

I learned enough about this kind of emerging industry that I thought maybe you could do it a little better.

I quit that job, started shift four in my parents' basement.

14 years later, I bought that company, by the way.