PROFILE
Cofounder, PEAK6
$450M
2024 America's Self-Made Women Net Worth
as of 5/28/24
Photo by Courtesy Jenny Just
From the Editor
- Jenny Just started out as an options trader in Chicago, then cofounded options trading firm Peak6 in 1997.
- Just used her trading profits to start or buy about 15 companies through Peak6.
- Her star investment: Apex Fintech Solutions, which handles the back-end trading and technology for fintechs such as SoFi, Ally, eToro and WeBull.
- Apex Fintech Solutions canceled plans to go public via a SPAC merger in December 2021; the deal would have valued the company at $4.7 billion.
- Peak6 also owns insurance company e-sports franchise Evil Geniuses, financial literacy app Zogo and Poker Power.
Forbes Lists
#1929
Billionaires (2022)Dropped off in 2023
Personal Stats
- Age
- 56
- Source of Wealth
- Fintech, Self Made
- Residence
- Chicago, Illinois
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
Did you know
Just, then a single mom to a 1-year-old, cofounded Peak6 with former colleague Matt Hulsizer. They later married.
In Their Own Words
I grew up with four brothers so it's not a radical surprise that I had chosen to be in a male-dominated field. I probably would have, frankly, failed in a totally female-dominated industry. This is my comfort zone
Jenny Just
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