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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Crypto, Growth, and 'Dumb Money'

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Vladimir Tenev, the CEO of the trading platform Robinhood, sat down for a wide-ranging conversation on investing and the company's future. This interview was filmed on Dec. 5, 2024.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ed Barron's. I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robin Hood Markets.

0:11.8

Vlad, great to see you. Thank you so much for joining us.

0:13.8

Yeah, thanks for having me.

0:15.1

So I think you're 37 years old, correct?

0:17.3

That's right.

0:18.3

So you founded Robin Hood, what, 11 years ago, and the company's grown

0:23.8

tremendously. I'm going to ask you the big question first, which is, where do you see Robin Hood

0:28.8

10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, because you could still be running the

0:32.7

company at that point? Yeah, yeah, quite possibly. I think over the next 10 years, Robin Hood is going to expand

0:42.4

across two independent vectors. One is to go from being U.S. only to global. And we started that

0:52.8

earlier this year. We launched in the UK and European Union, and at our recent investor day, we announced

1:00.6

that we've chosen Singapore as our APAC headquarters, so we'll be in Asia next year as well.

1:07.9

So from US to global and from consumer retail to also business and institutional.

1:16.4

And I think that we've done very well.

1:20.1

I mean, some would say Robin Hood has changed the brokerage industry in the past 10 years,

1:25.6

but our customers want more from us.

1:29.0

We see an opportunity to serve different types of customers.

1:32.4

And so the ways that I believe we can scale the business another 10x are, there's a multitude

1:40.8

of them.

1:41.8

And I think we're going to tackle many simultaneously.

1:44.7

I want to drill down into some of those points you just made, but also just sort of acknowledge

1:49.9

the point that you guys are part of the zeitgeist of investing over the past 10 years,

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