Robinhood's Crypto Pivot with Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder, CEO
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🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Robinhood's Co-Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev announced some major news at Permissionless earlier this week. Robinhood is diving deep into crypto and web3!
How so? When's the big roll-out? Hear all about it and so much more in the interview.
P.S. It's Ryan and David's FIRST in-person interview! You don't want to miss it, anon. Trust.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:53 Wen Vlad & Robinhood Got Cryptopilled
7:55 Why Self-Custody
9:09 Robinhood 3
12:15 Chromatic Feedback & Other Features
14:03 Why the Crypto Pivot?
20:37 Utility of Robinhood’s Non-Custodian Wallet
26:04 Cannobolization Threat?
27:32 Robinhood’s Seriousness, Culture, & Demand
30:44 Robinhood Crypto Users
32:28 Robinhood 3’s Case for Normies
34:56 What’s Next
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Resources:
Vlad Tenev
https://twitter.com/vladtenev
Robinhood 3
https://robinhood.com/web3-wallet
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the future of internet money and internet finance. |
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| 0:14.5 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm here with David Hoffman in freaking person, and we're here to help you become more |
| 0:21.9 | bankless. |
| 0:22.9 | Uh, did that from memory, David? |
| 0:24.5 | Nice job, man. |
| 0:25.5 | Nice job. |
| 0:26.5 | Uh, who do we have on today? |
| 0:27.5 | What are we talking about? |
| 0:28.5 | We had 10 of the CEO of Robinhood, and we of course are doing this app permission list |
| 0:32.4 | because right before Vlad came into our makeshift podcast booth, uh, he did, uh, they did |
| 0:37.9 | a press release for a non custodial wallet coming out of Robinhood. |
| 0:41.7 | So they are calling this Robinhood 3, which I thought was Robinhood Web 3, but it's actually |
| 0:46.2 | Robinhood the third evolution, which Vlad goes into in the podcast as well. |
| 0:50.5 | So we try and pick his brains about what some of the features are in the, this Robinhood |
| 0:55.1 | 3 app. |
| 0:56.5 | He leaks a little bit. |
| 0:58.0 | You can kind of see a little bit of what's going on there, but he mainly keeps things mostly |
| 1:02.4 | under wraps, except for the stuff he leaks. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.4 | At a high level, I think it's super exciting that they are going into the self custodial |
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