Billionaire steps outside his SpaceX capsule in 'dangerous' first ever private spacewalk... as his historic first words are revealed
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- Sep 12, 2024
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Jared Isaacman today become the first ever non-professional to complete a spacewalk.
But what is his background?
Isaacman, 41, is most well known as the founder and CEO of the American payment processing company Shift4.
He founded the company in 1999 out of his parent's basement when he was just 16 years old.
After dropping out of high school to work as a cybersecurity consultant, Isaacman used a $10,000 loan from his grandad to convince a bank to certify him to sell credit card terminals.
That business ballooned and now handles transactions for a third of America's restaurants and hotels - processing more than $200 billion in payments every year.
In 2021, he approached Elon Musk with the idea of purchasing an entire passenger flight from SpaceX which could take himself and three other passengers into orbit.
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