Jared Isaacman

It's the same thing with SpaceX.

You're like, well, four years ago, they barely put astronauts in space.

They've done over a dozen commercial space missions right now in just a short span of time, not to mention caught a skyscraper with chopsticks from a building.

Things happen quick.

And we started to see that a lot, I think, in the last years I was at Draken, which made me really...

I mean, really concerned about their pace of progress while we were stagnating.

Man, man.

Well, so in 2008, I did a world record flight and it was just speed around the world.

It was just a fun challenge.

I wanted to do it and did also to raise funds and awareness for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

And when I came back from that, I was invited to go to Baikonur, Kazakhstan by Peter Diamantis, who's

He's like a serial entrepreneur, but very forward-thinking, brilliant guy, like MIT, MD.

He's like, do you want to come and see this commercial?

It's a Soyuz launch from Baikonur, but it's going to have a commercial astronaut on it, Richard Garriott.

I was like, do I want to go to Russia, Kazakhstan to see a rocket launch?

Yes, of course.

I wound up going with a lot of the early pioneers of the commercial space industry, including a lot of the SpaceX guys.

And by the way, that is so cool.

If you go to a rocket launch, a human rocket launch at NASA Kennedy Space Center, the closest you'll get is about three miles away.

When you go to see the Russians send their astronauts up from Kazakhstan, you're like a par three away.