Jared Isaacman
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But if you're going to be in those circumstances, do whatever you can to try and help.
So that's kind of what paired me with Make-A-Wish for a really long time.
You got exposure to St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital where when you understand their mission, which is that no child should die in the dawn of life, and if they're successful, you don't need to grant as many wishes.
And I thought, you know, with Polaris, you know, it was a big enough platform that you could raise enough money to kind of make a real dent at it.
So that's kind of how it went down.
Yeah, pretty much entirely.
So, you know, you've got the not so, you know, happy side of it, which is what Make-A-Wish and St.
Jude try and do, which, I mean, look, it's happy as they keep increasing the survival rate of childhood cancer.
Those are good days.
But then it's kind of like the other side, which is more of the, I don't know, I guess the inspirational side where I try and help out a lot.
So Space Camp, I've donated an awful lot to that organization.
I think it's a national treasure.
I went there.
Senator Sheehy, you know him, Navy SEAL, he went to space camp seven times as a kid.
It is a place where you get experiences as a kid that you can't get in the classroom, that you can't get playing a video game.
And it's all the things that we need to ensure the competitiveness of our nation.
I mean,
It started as space camp.
It's space camp.