#137 - The Teenage Software Engineer Chasing Down Billionaires Private Jets | Jack Sweeney

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Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jack Sweeney created ElonJet. Jack codes & programs twitter bots using aviation software to track the private jets of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban, and Vladimir Putin. https://twitter.com/JxckSweeney https://twitter.com/ElonJet Follow Danny https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Cool
0:03.0	Free Podcast
0:05.0	For the purpose
0:08.0	Hello
0:09.0	How old are you?
0:10.0	19
0:11.0	You're 19
0:12.0	How the hell is a 19-year-old
0:14.0	Learned to like do all this coding
0:16.0	And all this crazy shit
0:18.0	Tracking Jets and all that?
0:19.0	How did you get interested in this?
0:20.0	I had a little bit
0:21.1	of coding experience from like school and like i you know you could like just start looking stuff up
0:25.8	and aviation related um i knew about like those flight tracking websites and my dad works in the aviation
0:32.5	aviation industry and so like i just started during covid a lot of free time and I was just looking
0:38.2	stuff up and I knew Elon had a jet so I could track him and I just started figuring it all out.
0:44.9	But what gave you the idea like maybe I should track Elon's jet and post it on Twitter?
0:49.3	Well, I knew he had one and people like knew it was his plane. But on those like major websites
0:54.1	you can't track
0:55.2	his plane because there's these rules like about that certain planes have to be blocked and
1:00.1	like i was like you know i'm interested in like tesla and SpaceX and him on twitter so i was like
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