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Robinhood is going public and we're very excited

Equity

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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It's a sweltering day here in New York City, and that means Wall Street is on fire, and so is Robinhood, apparently. The popular stock trading app officially filed its Form S-1 with the SEC a few hours ago to go public, where it will trade under the ticker "HOOD." The Equity crew has been yammering about Robinhood for years now, and we have been chomping on the bit to see those S-1 results for what feels like ages. Well, we finally got the numbers, we chomped that bit (or at least Alex and Danny did, since Natasha went on vacation about 15 minutes before the IPO hit the wires), and so here's a special Equity Shot to talk about all the highlights. We talked about so much in an itsy-bitsy 15-minute episode: crazy revenue growth, crazy revenue concentration from two major sources, regulatory hurdles that the company has been clearing up, better financials with a bit of nuance on the company's Q1 finances, and the company's special plan for its IPO. Wowza. Here's what we got up to: Historical growth and profitability. Revenue mix and revenue concentration, along with constituent concerns. The importance of options-related incomes for the company. Dogecoin. Why the company's adjusted income may help it assuage investors who have their eyes pop out of their skulls when they see its GAAP Q1 2021 results. And a lot more. Of course, if you hate Robinhood, we will be back with our normally-scheduled Friday episode of Equity tomorrow. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

You can break through that Paywell at a steep discount if you use the promo code Equity.

0:09.1

If you do, you'll get access to our best stuff and you'll make Equity look really good internally at the same time.

0:13.4

Enough of that, let's start the show. Hello and welcome back to Equity guys this is an Equity shot it's an emergency

0:30.8

it's an emergency because Robin Hood finally filed to go public and as you'll hear tomorrow

0:36.0

morning we just sent Natasha off on to vacation so it is just Mr. Crichton and myself but my gosh

0:41.1

Danny I'm so excited this This is like dork Christmas.

0:44.0

It's door Christmas except we're not getting free shares. No no free gifts for us

0:48.1

But I think we've been waiting what two years for this three years for this so long

0:52.2

I feel like the entire time I've been waiting for Robin Hood to go public.

0:56.0

Well, I mean, yeah, and then what's weird is normally here I would kind of critique them and

0:59.7

mock them for going public so late, but given what the company kind of has gone through in the last 15, 18 months, like growth terms, like regulatory issues, it's been so crazy. It kind of makes sense that they're going public on the other side of it.

1:13.6

Anyways, Danny, let's kick off with some very high-level numbers.

1:16.9

From the top of the S1, can you spin us through some of the big ones?

1:20.4

Well, Robin Hood is really trying to project an image of, you know, widespread engagement and

1:25.2

a lot, a lot of money.

1:26.2

So their key numbers as they define them is net cumulative funded accounts, which they claim is

1:30.2

18 million.

1:31.2

Monthly active users, 17.7 million are obviously trying to show that

1:34.8

everyone who has an account essentially is active.

1:37.2

They announced today that they had 81 billion dollars of capital under custody that is

1:42.0

not necessarily traded but they have within their

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