Jared Isaacman

You're getting fuel.

So it's all the logistics of, can you get all that done so you're not sitting on the ground for too long, fueled up and in the air, and do your flight planning essentially in the air in order to beat the record?

And I was like, for sure, with all this extra information, you can.

Um, but any like good adventure that I've been lucky enough to go on, you try and always, um, you know, couple it with a really, uh, a really good, you know, philanthropic effort, try and, you know, try and pay back what you're fortunate enough to be able to participate in.

And, um, so Make-A-Wish has been a charity I've worked with for a long time.

Um, once kind of the, you know, the space missions came around and the platform got a lot bigger and could raise a lot more money, I kind of pivoted to, to St.

Jude Children's Research Hospital.

And that's where we've, you know, mostly been focused on for the last few years.

So I know how lucky I've been in life.

And I think it's pretty damn important to acknowledge that from time to time, too.

You get a lot of successful entrepreneurs.

You make all your own luck.

It's like you make some of it, okay?

I mean, you were born in this country.

You were born healthy.

There's a lot of families that, no fault of their own, just dealt really shitty hands in life.

No child should be faced with the possibility of never growing up to get a driver's license or go to college or something.

I think that always gravitated towards those causes that try and help people going through absolutely horrific times.

With Make-A-Wish,

I mean, it just seems absolutely terrible that an organization like that needs to exist in the first place to give a child with a life-threatening illness a last wish, right?