His name is Jared Isaacman, he is passionate about aviation, he is 38 years old and he is the American billionaire at the head of the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission which, for the first time in history, launched four American citizens without professional astronauts into space. How much Isaacman paid out to Elon Musk’s company to board the spacecraft, and then offer the trip to the other three guests, has not been revealed. Among other things, the mission not only allows him to see his everlasting dream of going into space come true, but also has the charitable goal of raising $ 200 million for pediatric cancer research.
In any case, the “helmsman” of Inspiration4 certainly has no shortage of economic possibilities. Just think that Forbes, in the ranking of world billionaires, attributes to Isaacman a net wealth calculated in real time as of September 15 equal to 2.4 billion dollars. This is mainly due to his 38% stake in Shift4 Payments, the company that operates in the digital payments sector and which he himself founded – as the company’s website explains – in 1999, therefore at the age of 16, from the basement of his family’s home in Far Hills, New Jersey.
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Well, today Shift4 Payments, led by Isaacman as CEO (chief executive officer) and landed on the Wall Street Stock Exchange in 2020, in full pandemic emergency, worth something like 6.5 billion dollars, strong in annual revenues that reached 767 million dollars last year. To those who asked him if he was not afraid of landing on the stock market in such a delicate moment, Isaacman replied: “People will have to eat too, right?”, Referring to the fact that Shift4 Payments “processes” over 200 billion dollars in payments. year, many of them just for restaurants and hotels.
To testify the great passion for aviation of the 38-year-old entrepreneur is, however, the birth of Draken International, which he founded in 2011, at the age of 28. It is a defense company that trains Air Force pilots and operates one of the world‘s largest private fleets of ex-military aircraft. Only that today it is no longer his, because he sold the majority stake in the private equity giant Blackstone, in 2019. And for a mysterious but nine-figure price, that is to say in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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