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'I'm not even 30, and I'm flying my own jet' — Silicon Beach elites take a seat in the cockpit

By the time her Tesla screeched to a stop outside the terminal, Jessica Mah was already 20 minutes late for her flight to San Francisco.

The 29-year-old tech entrepreneur breezed past the check-in desk and out onto the tarmac with the confidence of an air marshal, a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses perched on her nose.

Twenty minutes later, she gunned the engine, tugged her hair into a low ponytail and radioed the tower to clear her for takeoff.

"I have a community of friends who fly out of Santa Monica, other entrepreneurs and CEO folks who needed a hobby," said Mah, who heads the accounting software firm inDinero. "We're so stressed out, there's so much going on - on the golf course I'm

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