Jenny Just is a visionary powerhouse, and one of the few self-made female billionaires in the United States. From the days of cutting her teeth on the trading floor in Chicago to now running a fintech empire, she has started and/or turned around more than fifteen companies. She has also made hundreds of private investments, including in such companies as Webull, Stash, QuantumScape, and Thrasio.
Jenny co-founded PEAK6 in 1997 with $1.5M in seed capital as a proprietary options trading firm and since then has grown it into a multibillion-dollar financial services and technology giant housing the next generation of products & service brands including PEAK6 Capital Management, PEAK6 Strategic Capital, Apex Fintech Solutions, Apex Crypto, PEAK6 InsurTech, Evil Geniuses, and Zogo.
With a true knack for unearthing talent and opportunities, Jenny looks for underfunded and underappreciated sectors to transform into high-growth businesses. Her passion specifically lies in finding opportunities for women to succeed at every table — from the classroom, to the conference room, to the poker room, to the boardroom.
This passion led her to launch Poker Power in 2020, a woman-led company that teaches poker to all who identify as female, and by extension, teaches women strategic thinking, capital allocation, and decision-making skills. Additionally, Jenny has created programs to help women advance their careers in trading, fintech, and technology. She founded the Women’s Trading Experience and Women’s Technology Experience programs in order tocreate a path for more women in fintech.
Finally, Jenny created Fintech In Action (FIA), a coalition of action-oriented corporations to accelerate progress, innovation, and opportunity in fintech and finance for Black students and professionals. FIA seeks to tangibly increase the pipeline of Black professionals for careers in fintech and finance and affect long-term change through equitable hiring, promotion, and talent retention.
In this episode of Takin’ Care of Lady Business, Jenny Just discusses how poker skills can be applied to various business situations, including building strategies, fearlessness, negotiation skills, and adaptability
- Jenny Just’s journey from trading floor to fintech powerhouse.
- How PEAK6 launched Poker Power to teach women poker and help them excel in business.
- The power of poker skills in business to build strategies and fearlessness in finance.
- Learning negotiation skills and adaptability through poker can be applied to negotiating salaries and navigating unexpected situations.
- The importance of making money and acting on your opinions.
Quotes:
"I think women you know, oftentimes you're the only one going into it. So, you don't have that opportunity for a partner but it's really critical to find those people that you could, you know, share that that journey with." – Jenny Just
"It also teaches you about adaptability and losing quickly and then getting back up." – Jenny Just
"You get 0% of what you don't ask for." – Jennifer Justice
"You have to have an opinion. And what I realized from playing poker, actually, it's not good enough just to have an opinion. You have to act on your opinion." – Jenny Just
Website
https://www.jennyjust.com
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