Jared Isaacman

And I was like, it's pretty bad.

It wasn't their fault.

It was just the industry neglected it.

And now fintech is really hot.

And companies like Square and Stripe and everything have all broken barriers and innovated in their own rights.

But for the longest time, it was just a boring bank industry that no one gave a crap about.

I just think they thought I'd be less of a, like, again, an academic embarrassment if they put me on another track in life.

But they were very supportive.

Like, I would never, like, I would never permit this with my kids.

Like, this is, the path I went down was,

you know, 99 times out of a hundred ends bad.

Like I should be pumping gas in, in New Jersey or something.

Um, so, uh, like I'm all for like the well, you know, paved road, um, you know, through higher education to get to success.

And that's certainly the road my kids will be on.

So my parents were a little, um, they were out of their mind to ever let me go down this path, but I'm, I'm, I'm grateful they did.

So I always wanted to be an astronaut.

I mean, when I was five years old, this is how I got into an aviation career.

When I was five, in kindergarten, I would check out books from the library, like the elementary school library with picture books of the space shuttle.

And I remember telling my kindergarten teacher, someday I'm going to be an astronaut.

She said she'll be watching in her rocking chair one day.