“For the first time ever,” Fortune magazine announced, it “has assembled a supplementary honor roll of the most impressive, young superstars who are transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.” They’ve selected forty representatives from all over fintech, and each is under forty years old. Among them are many cryptosphere leaders finally getting their due.
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Bitcoin Dominates Fortune’s New Ledger 40 Under 40 List
Traditionally, Fortune’s lists comprise go-getters from all sectors of commerce, be they are CEOs or Academy Award winners. Indeed, the magazine just came out with their annual 40 Under 40 list, and for sure cryptocurrency luminaries such as Vitalik Buterin and Brian Armstrong were among them. However, for the first time, this year Fortune supplemented their usual list with a special emphasis on financial technology leaders.
Jihan Wu, 32, made the list. The magazine describes him as “the undisputed king of cryptocurrency mining hardware and crypto mining pools.” Beijing, China-based Bitmain recently reached a double digit valuation in the billions. He, of course, “has been known as a big proponent of Bitcoin Cash, a controversial fork of Bitcoin. Earlier this year, his company led a $110 million financing round for Circle, the crypto startup with the highest valuation in the U.S. Wu told Fortune earlier this year that he’s interested in ‘stablecoins,’ virtual coins that have a fixed price, and that he plans to diversify Bitmain by developing AI chips.”
Amber Baldet, 35, is that rare, new breed of CEO who can comfortably, seamlessly make her way between Wall Street and more radical elements of the ecosystem. She cut her teeth professionally at “JPMorgan Chase,” the magazine notes. She would eventually leave
