Jared Isaacman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
When I did wind up becoming an astronaut, she had already passed away, so she didn't get to see it.
But...
I was always enamored by space.
I built my first computer so I could play flight simulators.
I became a pilot because I thought that's as good as it's going to get.
I'm a realist.
I'm not going to be struck by lightning and become an astronaut.
I went to the space camp for aviation.
It's called the Aviation Challenge at Space Camp.
I was 20 years old, I guess, four years after I started my company, where I was waking up on my keyboard
And I was just burning myself out because I was going 20 hours a day.
And I told my parents, I was like, I need a hobby.
I'm going to start flying.
And I started flying.
And I knew I wanted to fly jets.
So I built time as fast as I could.
I was flying as much as I could everywhere, moved to jets, then got into ex-military aircraft, met a bunch of really awesome people in that world that some of the greatest people
military fighter pilots in the world that I got exposure to.
Dale Snort Snodgrass, like naval aviation legend.
There's a cool picture of an F-14 passing in front of a aircraft carrier, like in Knife Edge, that was him.