Jared Isaacman

Jared Isaacman (born 11 February 1983) is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder of Draken International, a private air force provider and the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, a payment processor.

• I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit. … I also think if we are going to live in that world, we better conquer childhood cancer along the way.
  • As quoted in "US billionaire buys SpaceX flight to orbit with 3 others" AP News (1 February 2021)

• Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.
  • Remarks at the start of the first civilian spacewalk,on the Polaris Dawn space mission (12 September 2024), quoted in "Tech billionaire pulls off first private spacewalk high above Earth", AP News (12 September 2024)

• This is spiritual warfare man. These people have no soul. We are outright at war with them. We will fight with everything we have.
  • As quoted in Card Connect, LLC v. Shift4 Payments, LLC, Case No. 2:23-cv-00267-JDW, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, via court document compilation.

• Tourist Biography: Jared Isaacman (Spacefacts)
• Countdown: Inspiration4: Mission to Space at Netflix
• 2008/2009 World Record attempts Archived December 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine