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Jenny Just

Cofounder, Peak6

Search every verified Jenny Just interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In August 2026, Jenny Just appeared on Episode 042 of the Redefining Risk podcast with host Annie Duke. During the conversation, she discussed her career in options trading, the relationship between luck and skill in decision-making, and her belief that good decisions can still lead to bad outcomes. Just also spoke about Poker Power, her initiative to teach decision-making through poker, particularly for women. She expressed a view that risk-taking skills around money are teachable and emphasized connecting power, money, and equality for women. In November 2026, a recorded conversation from Apex’s Ascend Innovation Summit featured Just and her husband and business partner Matt Hulsizer, co-founders of PEAK6 Investments. The discussion covered their 2012 acquisition of what became Apex Fintech Solutions assuredly and their shared vision of using technology to make financial markets more accessible and efficient. During the talk, Just said that people’s success depends on equipping them with tools, specifically naming risk-taking around money as a teachable skill, and recommended poker as a way to practice it.

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Notable quotes

“Building equality has everything to do with power and power is everything to do with money. So these they have to come together in order for us to have a different planet that we're living in.”

“I don't have to win all the time for this to be a winning strategy. And I learn more and I decrease my downside the more I learn.”

“If you look at Corweave, a company we've been investor in since a long time ago, right? Those founders own significant percentages of the equity mostly because it's around structuring, which is what you really want. You want to promote the entrepreneurs, not dilute them out so that you can line your own pocket.”

“We're not a long only shop. We're not Fidelity. We're not buying stocks and holding them forever like Buffett. But we hold them longer than a micron of a second. We might hold them for a week or even a month.”

“Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed.”

“That business became Apex Fintech Solutions and we are now the backend again meaning we hold the data and the securities and build and operate the technology for over 220 companies that sit on our platform. Everyone from SoFi and Ally to Public Stash and Weeble. We serve more than 40 million end customers. And if any of you invest online, you likely use our tech.”

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