Fed-Up Banker Quit for a Startup, and Now She’s a Billionaire
- Junqueira’s stake in Nubank worth $1.1 billion at top of range
- Brazilian digital bank she co-founded to price IPO Wednesday
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Cristina Junqueira knew she needed to make a change.
She’d left management consultancy to get an MBA from Northwestern University and had ended up in banking, overseeing a portfolio of credit cards at Brazil’s Itau Unibanco Holding SA. She rose through the ranks for four years until 2013, when she quit -- tired of selling people products she said they didn’t actually want.