Billionaire Jared Isaacman conducted the first commercial "spacewalk" on Thursday with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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00:00The billionaire who just made history by completing the first ever private spacewalk is also a high school dropout.
00:06The 41-year-old entrepreneur made his fortune through a payment processing company he founded in 1999 when he was just 16.
00:13Started in his parents' basement, the company now processes more than $260 billion in payments every year.
00:20And in 2011, he founded a defense firm that supplies tactical fighter aircraft to the U.S. military and its allies.
00:27Isaacman has a net worth of $1.9 billion according to Forbes.
00:31Although he technically didn't leave the spacecraft, he is one of the first non-professional astronauts from a private company to have conducted a spacewalk.