Jared Isaacman

And it's not because, like, as a kid, I dreamed of someday growing up and running a fintech.

Like, nobody's like, when I grow up, I want to be...

I want to run a payments company.

No, when I grew up, I wanted to be an astronaut or a pilot, which is way cooler.

But I learned enough.

So yeah, I wound up going and working there for six months.

I learned enough about this kind of emerging industry that I thought maybe you could do it a little better.

I quit that job, started shift four in my parents' basement.

14 years later, I bought that company, by the way.

So I came back full circle, Merchant Services.

Nice.

And yeah, I mean, now we have like 6,500 employees.

We process payments in six different continents.

What helps if you're not a good student right from the get-go.

So they felt like I didn't have much to lose.

I hated school.

I looked for any excuse to not be in school.

I mean, if there was like a fire drill, that to me was a pass to just skip the rest of the day.

It was like, you know, the teacher, where were you?

It was like, ah, the fire alarm went off.