CEO, Acorns
WHY: Runs OC’s hottest fintech firm, micro-investing app geared at millennials. Joined in 2014. Walter Cruttenden-founded firm’s investors include two Nobel Prize winners, basketball and Hollywood stars and the wife of the publisher of the New York Times.
RECENT: Nearing unicorn status. Earlier this year was valued at $860M.
QUOTABLE: “Everybody believes in the mission and the social impact of Acorns—that’s why everybody is getting behind the company.”
