“I tell women, ‘You don’t have to be a trader the rest of your life. But if you can understand options, you can sit at any table in any industry, in any position, and understand what’s going on with the money. And that’s where all the decisions are.’ “
Jenny Just, Co-Founder, Peak6
This one lands a little close to home for me…
Jenny Just and I were contemporaries – in both cases, our first jobs out of college; in both cases, within the equity options group – at O’Connor & Associates (OCA) in the early 1990’s. Since then, we’ve been on dramatically different journeys, as explained in Time Magazine‘s recent profile “The Female Billionaire Thinks the Secret to Women’s Wealth Is Poker.” by editor-at-large, Belinda Luscombe…
It will not mean much to most readers here, however, to be quoted in the same paragraph as “the brain” – Clay Struve – around which so much of OCA’s success was built is quite an achievement, particularly from the perspective of my younger self…
