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The Other Kind of Space Billionaire

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

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