Ribbit Capital founder Micky Malka maintains his spot at no. 2 on the Midas List in 2024, following his debut in 2021.Malka initially leapfrogged toward the top of the list after some of the highest-profile IPOs of 2021, like Coinbase, Nubank and Robinhood, all came from his portfolio.He founded and sold his first business, a financial brokerage, while still a teenager. He moved to the Bay Area in 2007 to launch Bling Nation, a payments startup that ultimately failed.Born in Venezuela, he opened the first-ever Wendy's fast food franchises in his home country in 1996, even meeting with the late iconic Wendy's founder Dave Thomas.