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• n  someone whose career progresses rapidly

• Seeing an opportunity to bring order to chaos, Joe Firmage, former USWeb founder and Internet whiz-kid, has founded Digital Universe a rapidly evolving project supported by .
• One of her chief antagonists is defense expert Sara Gino, a whiz-kid forensic expert from Turin who charges that Stefanoni cherry-picked DNA results to profile the suspects .
• This latest go-round featured hedge-fund operators, leveraged-buyout boys (who took to calling themselves "private-equity firms") and whiz-kid quants who devised and plugged in .

• go-getter
• whizz-kid
• ball of fire

News & Articles

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• Jacco Gardner: Show Preview
  How does someone born in 1989 have such a grasp of 1960s baroque pop? Did they have parents or older siblings with extensive record collections? Whatever it is, Netherlands multi-instrumentalist and whiz-kid Jacco Gardner has absorbed the styles and ambiences of the '60s popsters who charged thei...
  Oct. 1, 2013 - SF Weekly

Quotes

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• Craig Lowndes in Orange Central Western Daily
  A few years ago I called him (Whincup) a whiz-kid, and he hasn't changed,Lowndes said.