Ken Griffin

Following the collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund, Wall Street is debating Citadel's potential role. Critics suspect that the firm's aggressive macro forecast triggered a panic that allowed it to acquire the fund's assets at a bargain.

At 25, Leopold Aschenbrenner founded the $45 billion Situational Awareness hedge fund, but after an AI stock slump, he was forced to sell a significant portion of his portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel.