Jared Isaacman

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.