ver since Jared Isaacman attended the Aviation Challenge summer camp at age 12, his goal was to flyfast. The New Jersey native, 39, is founder and CEO of Shift4; in 2020, his company’s IPO made him a billionaire, but he’d become a serious pilot long before then. He earned his pilot’s license in 2005, at age 22, and just four years later—after moving through single- and multi-engine instrument ratings to jets— Isaacman broke the round-the-world speed record in a Citation CJ2. Attaining an “experimental type” rating
The Other Kind of Space Billionaire
Aug 02, 2022
3 minutes
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