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Why I Left Wall Street to Build My Own Billion-Dollar Firm
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April 8, 2026
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1:31Now PlayingJacob Walthour, Co-founder and CEO of Blueprint Capital Advisors, joins Forbes senior writer Jabari Young on The Enterprise Zone at Nasdaq MarketSite. In honor of Financial Literacy Month in April, Walthour talks about his journey from upstate New York to Wall Street, running a financial firm with $2 billion in assets, offers investment advice for the remainder of the year, and explains why spending $10,000 on career training is wise.
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