Shift4 Leadership in Flux as Trump Pulls CEO’s NASA Nomination

Taylor Lauber was preparing to start his new job as chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments Inc. soon, as the company’s founder and current CEO got ready to head to Washington to lead NASA under President Donald Trump.

That’s now all in doubt after Trump over the weekend suddenly pulled Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead the space agency, with analysts expecting that he will likely remain at the helm of the payments company he started in his parents’ basement as a teenager. Shift4 listed publicly in 2020 and now has a market valuation of about $8.5 billion.

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