Business Insider's 2025 Rising Stars of Wall Street

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Photo collage featuring Wall Street's rising stars of 2024

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They're still in the early innings of their careers, but these dealmakers and investors are already setting the agenda for the next era of finance.

I quit JPMorgan after rising through the ranks over 14 years. I don't blame the bank alone for my burnout.

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Wilma Ramona de Souza
Wilma Ramona de Souza worked at JPMorgan for 14 years, becoming an executive director by her mid-thirties.

Wilma Ramony de Souza

I'm 16 and just raised $1 million for my AI project despite being average at school. Here's why it helps to be delusional.

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Toby Brown headshot
Toby Brown, 16, decided to leave school to move to San Francisco.

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Why Goldman's CEO thinks the bank will have more people in 10 years — not less — thanks to AI

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David Solomon addressed AI spending this week at a conference in Italy.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon addressed AI spending this week at a conference in Italy.

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Meta is monitoring how much employees use AI — and turning it into a game

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Meta is monitoring how much employees use AI.

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Amazon finally offered this 22-year-old a job after a yearlong search. He says posting on TikTok helped him prepare.

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Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen

Andrew Chen

I cofounded an app with a teenager, and we make over $1 million in profit a month. You never know who might change your life.

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Jake Castillo cofounded Cal AI with a former intern he worked with.

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Sora 2 makes me realize the AI future really is here. It's wonderful — and terrifying.

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Sora 2 with Katie and Sam Altman
Sora 2 can make videos of me flying a dragon or Sam Altman robbing a store. They look real — which is fun, and also terrifying.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs executives are pushing staff to ditch slow internal systems for faster engineering tools

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 17, 2025.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses during at presentation at the Meta Connect event in Silicon Valley

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Why Apple might be giving up on the Vision Pro

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Apple CEO Tim Cook stands next to an Apple Vision Pro headset, June 2023
Apple CEO Tim Cook showed off the Apple Vision Pro in the spring of 2023. It hasn't made much of a splash since then.

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