A Financial “Super App” & Met Gala Moments 5/5/26

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Business News, Business, Investing, News

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev discusses his platform’s support for Trump Accounts, as well as his ambition to build a “financial super app.” CNBC’s Diana Olick reports on the effort to build a distributed network of small data centers attached to residential homes, and CNBC’s Dan Murphy is in the United Arab Emirates, reporting on the latest escalations in the region. Plus, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Melissa Lee recap their newsy interview with Gamestop CEO Ryan Cohen, and E! host Keltie Knight recalls the highlights of the Met Gala’s big fashion and money moments. Dan Murphy - 02:55 Diana Olick - 15:53 Vlad Tenev - 21:43 Keltie Knight - 40:02 In this episode: Vlad Tenev, @vladtenev Diana Olick, @DianaOlick Dan Murphy, @dan_murphy Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Melissa Lee, @MelissaLeeCNBC Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.2	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.2	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.6	We've got a special interview with Robin Hood CEO Vlad Tenive,
0:13.6	powering the Trump savings accounts for newborns
0:16.2	and building the future of money.
0:18.6	We're building a financial super app,
0:23.7	serving our customers across any asset class,
0:26.8	any financial transaction, anywhere in the world.
0:31.6	A distributed data center network attached to your house?
0:35.3	CNBC's Diana Oleg reports on innovation on the grid.
0:40.9	Span is now making small fractional data centers, or they call them nodes, that can be put on the side of residential homes.
0:42.9	And the interview you'll only hear on CNBC and on yesterday's Squawk Pod, GameStop
0:48.5	CEO Ryan Cohen gave pretty short answers to some big questions about his bid to buy eBay.
0:55.1	I imagined, or I imagined, I don't know which way it goes,
0:59.5	that there is a genuine rationale for how he thinks he can get there.
1:03.8	Yeah, and he will have to answer all the questions that we pose to him.
1:07.3	I'm sure eBay will ask similar questions.
1:10.7	Plus the money and fashion on the red carpet.
1:13.9	E-host, Kelty Night was at the Met Gala with Beyonce, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, and of course, the Kardashians.
1:20.9	This is a very thought-out thing, and when you met, you met.
1:24.8	Like, Kim Kardashian does not come to the Met to not be the most popular person on Instagram.
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