Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. He launched the trading platform alongside Baiju Bhatt in 2013 with the goal of making investing more accessible through commission-free stock trading for everyday investors. Under his leadership, Robinhood expanded beyond equities into options, ETFs, cryptocurrency, banking products, and private market investing, and the company went public in July 2021. In addition to Robinhood, Tenev is the co-founder and executive chairman of Harmonic, an AI-driven platform focused on organizing and analyzing business and market data.
0:00 Vlad Tenev
0:14 The Party Question That Started Robinhood
3:59 Stanford, Physics, and Finding a Co-Founder
6:19 The 2008 Crash as Opportunity
14:15 Navigating Regulators Before Building Anything
19:35 Three Years to Launch
30:20 Why We Put Your Balance on the Home Screen
33:36 How the Old Guard Responded
58:57 Prediction Markets
67:51 Tokenized Stocks and 24/7 Trading
78:08 The Three Arcs: Where Robinhood Is Headed
95:11 Making IPOs Great Again
