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Jared Isaacman’s Net Worth: How Much Money He Makes

Trump chose the entrepreneur—who became the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk and has close ties to Elon Musk—to lead NASA. Here’s a look at his financial standing.

In 2022, he partnered with Elon Musk and SpaceX to fund and launch the Polaris Program, a series of three private spaceflights aimed at testing technologies and maneuvers for exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. At 16, Isaacman left high school in New Jersey to earn his GED and secured a job at a credit card processing firm called Merchant Services, Inc. Not long after, he decided to start his own competing company, which he launched from his parents’ basement in 1999 and would later be named Shift4. In addition to Shift4, Isaacman founded Draken International in 2011, a defense contractor that trains Air Force pilots and operates the world’s largest private fleet of military aircraft.

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