Jared Isaacman

It's a really interesting story.

I was working at, so I started this kind of basement computer repair company with a buddy of mine who was just leaving for college.

And to create leads, I went and worked at CompUSA, so it was like a big computer retailer.

I think they're out of business now.

They've been out of business probably for a long time.

And unless somebody literally needed to buy something off the shelf, I was just solely using it to create leads.

Oh, you need to build a website.

It's like, well, we can do that.

Or you need to fix your computers or something.

So this company, these guys came in from a company called Merchant Services.

And this is in New Jersey.

And they were doing credit card processing.

And this is in 1999.

And, you know, they were trying to – they had some virus issues on their computers, but they were also trying to figure out what this whole e-commerce thing was, being able to, you know, enable people to buy things on the internet.

And so I, you know, that became a lead for my company.

I was like, well, I have nothing here to sell you to fix this, but –

Here's my card.

And so they called, and my father had to drive me because I didn't even have a driver's license to their offices.

And they offered me a job.

And I convinced my parents to let me leave school and do it.