Jared Isaacman

Like Wall Street traders, like rich guys had them, right?

Who could have ever imagined in the 1980s when they were setting up the first cell towers and installing cell phones in cars,

you know, that a couple decades in the future, every 13-year-old would have it, and some of the most valuable companies in the world were not the ones that were building the towers or building the phones, but the ones that created a piece of software on your phone so you could order food at 2 in the morning.

or connect with your friends from high school or college.

No one could have imagined that.

No one could have imagined social networks or something in the 1980s when they created cell phones or cars.

Well, you're going to have a similar kind of light switch moment when Starship comes online and when Blue Origin, what Jeff Bezos is working on with New Glenn, and the cost to put mass in orbit is so low that we can start experimenting.

You have no idea what's going to come of it, like what that orbital economy will be.

I mean, maybe we're going to find cancer-treating drugs or tumor-killing drugs that are up there.

Maybe it is mining helium-3, which unlocks fusion power here on Earth.

Maybe.

I don't know.

Maybe it's mining asteroids.

Maybe we're manufacturing in space and that everyday trade jobs are doing maintenance on hardware in low Earth orbit.

We don't know.

Because up until now, the cost to access space has been so damn high that you couldn't experiment.

It had to be sure things.

You want to put a spy satellite up, it's going to cost a half a billion dollars.

You're going to spend billions on it.

You're going to get it right.