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Vlad Tenev

Co-founder and CEO, Robinhood

Vlad Tenev appears in 4 full episodes we cover on TBPN, Founders Podcast and No Priors. Below is what each conversation covered, with a key takeaway per article. Every quote in the articles is verbatim and timestamped to the source video.

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18 articleswith timestamped quotes

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BusinessFounders Podcast

Building Robinhood, Surviving GameStop & A $500 Million Phone Call | Vlad Tenev

Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev sits down with David Senra to break down the dramatic inside story of surviving the GameStop short squeeze and clearinghouse capital requirements in January 2021. Tenev details hi…

  • Pure mathematics at elite levels narrows your audience to roughly twenty people worldwide who can understand a single paper. Read →
  • In 1997, Bulgarian inflation hit 1,700% in a single year, destroying Vlad Tenev's family savings and driving his relatives to hoard physical copper cookware as currency. Read →
  • Robinhood's clearinghouse deposit requirements exploded from under $100 million to $3 billion overnight during the January 2021 GameStop retail trading peak. Read →
Nov 15 · 3 articles · Watch ↗
AINo Priors

Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO Vlad Tenev

Robinhood CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev joins Sarah Guo to discuss expanding societal ownership through tokenization, private market access, and government-backed baby bonds. Tenev also outlines Robinhood's push into ag…

  • Robinhood registered more than 150,000 agentic trading accounts within months of launching the feature. Read →
  • Microsoft and Amazon both held initial public offerings at valuations in the hundreds of millions, giving ordinary public market buyers a 1,000x return that late-stage private rou… Read →
  • Robinhood is the sole initial broker and trustee for the federal baby bond program, collaborating with BNY, the IRS, and the Treasury. Read →
Nov 8 · 5 articles · Watch ↗
BusinessTBPN

Ken Griffindor School of Market Wizardry, Supper Intelligence, GDP per GW

John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss the White House superintelligence dinner, cybersecurity risks facing open-source AI, the macro relationship between electrical power and GDP output, and Mustafa Suleyman's essay on mod…

  • MongoDB expanded its growth trajectory by shifting to Atlas, its managed cloud service that bills customers directly for consumption rather than selling static licenses. Read →
  • Total electricity consumption across the United States sits at roughly 500 gigawatts. Read →
  • Mustafa Suleyman warns that assigning moral patient status or model welfare to AI creates dangerous alignment risks. Read →
Oct 4 · 6 articles · Watch ↗
BusinessTBPN

Leo Sold, Ferrari Undefeated, Meta Down, Microsoft Up, Market Turmoil

The episode delves into the rapid collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund, 'Situational Awareness,' due to excessive leverage and market volatility, with Ken Griffin's Citadel stepping in to acquire its assets…

  • Ferrari's first electric vehicle, the Luch, hit its 2026 sales targets years ahead of schedule, defying initial skepticism. Read →
  • Robinhood's "super app" strategy involves unifying 13 distinct business lines, each generating over $100 million in annualized revenue, to promote broad individual ownership. Read →
  • Jun Park's Simile simulates 'tens of millions' of people to test products, messages, and gain market insights. Founders, use this AI for rapid customer validation. Read →
Aug 2 · 4 articles · Watch ↗
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