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Jared Isaacman

Net worth $1.1B

Payment processing · United States

Born
Feb 11, 1983
Age
43
Source
Payment processing
Residence
Easton, Pennsylvania
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Jared Isaacman is the founder and CEO of Allentown, Pennsylvania-based payment processing firm Shift4 Payments.
  • Shift4 handles payments for a third of America's restaurants and hotels; Isaacman took it public in 2020.
  • He started the firm at age 16 in his parents' basement in Far Hills, New Jersey in 1999.
  • In 2011, he founded Draken International, a defense firm that trains Air Force pilots and owns the world's largest private fleet of military aircraft.
  • He sold a majority stake in Draken to Wall Street firm Blackstone in 2019 for a nine-figure sum.
  • Isaacman was nominated by Donald Trump in January 2025 to serve as the administrator of NASA.
  • Isaacman is a fighter jet pilot and his call sign is "Rook."
  • In 2019, he bought a Soviet-era Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jet from the estate of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen (d. 2018).

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