#223 Baiju Bhatt - Co-Founder of Robinhood & CEO of Aetherflux

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.9 • 38.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Baiju Bhatt is the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux, a space-based solar energy startup launched in 2024 that aims to beam power from orbit to Earth using infrared lasers. A first-generation American of Gujarati descent, Bhatt co-founded Robinhood in 2013 with Vlad Tenev, serving as co-CEO until 2020 and Chief Creative Officer until March 2024, helping to revolutionize commission-free trading. He holds a BS in Physics and an MS in Mathematics from Stanford and previously started two finance companies in New York before launching Robinhood. Inspired by his father’s career at NASA, Bhatt founded Aetherflux, which has raised \$60 million in funding with plans for a 2026 satellite demonstration to deliver clean energy to remote regions. He is a Forbes-listed billionaire with a net worth of $2.5 billion and an advocate for commercial space innovation. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: ⁠https://betterhelp.com/srs⁠ This episode is sponsored. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. ⁠https://bunkr.life – USE CODE SRS⁠ Go to https://bunkr.life/SRS and use code “SRS” to get your 25% off your family plan ⁠https://shawnlikesgold.com⁠ ⁠https://helixsleep.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://rocketmoney.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://ROKA.com – USE CODE SRS⁠ ⁠https://ziprecruiter.com/srs⁠ Baiju Bhatt Links: Aetherflux - https://www.aetherflux.com X - https://x.com/BaijuBhatt IG - https://www.instagram.com/realbaijubhatt Robinhood - https://robinhood.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bejubat, welcome to the show.
0:07.0	What's up, man?
0:08.0	Oh man, I'm excited about this one.
0:10.0	Me too.
0:11.0	I'm really excited about this one.
0:13.0	But I would have dive right into this.
0:15.0	I'm sorry I cut you off on that conversation.
0:17.0	We've got to have this on the show.
0:19.0	But you were looking at the bar over there and asking, you know, if people drink on the show?
0:22.6	And I said, no, I actually haven't had a drink in over three years now.
0:26.6	I did the psychedelics thing.
0:28.6	And you brought up that it seems to be like a movement of the younger generation.
0:34.6	Just booze doesn't have a place. I think that's a good thing, but you brought up a good point.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.3	So I feel like the contrary take here is that alcohol has kind of gone out of vogue in society,
0:48.8	I think especially with young people.
0:51.1	And it's kind of like at the same time that we see like a precipitous drop in socializing,
0:58.0	romance, all this stuff for the younger generation, right? And like, I actually think it's,
1:04.0	as I was making this point earlier, I think alcohol is a very important part of human society.
1:09.0	I think it's a very important social lubricant.
1:12.5	And like, yeah, my contrarian view on it is alcohol is actually really important.
1:18.7	That's an interesting constant.
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