- Adena Friedman
- Nasdaq
- that "people didn't care as much about" when she was 28 years old.
- Friedman said she learned two lessons from heading the project: Take all opportunities and surround yourself with smart people.
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The CEO of Nasdaq took a project at age 28 that taught her 2 lessons and changed the way she shaped her career
Adena Friedman was named CEO of Nasdaq in 2017 after being with the company for two decades. Friedman said her career was shaped after taking on a project at the company that "people didn't care as much about" when she was 28 years old.
Adena Friedman was named Nasdaq CEO in 2017.
After two decades at Nasdaq, Adena Friedman was named CEO of the world's second-largest stock exchange in 2017 — but she doesn't attribute her success within the company to the amount of years she's worked there.
Friedman joined Nasdaq in 1993 after completing her MBA at Vanderbilt University. A few years later, Friedman, then 28, was put in charge of the Mutual Fund Quotation Service — a mini-business that nobody else within the company wanted to touch, she told Business Insider on an episode of our podcast "This Is Success."
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Friedman describes the product as a support to Nasdaq's operations but not central to trading. "
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