Vlad Tenev, CEO of Robinhood, joined me to discuss the company’s plans for the crypto asset class, its blockchain initiatives, and more.
Get to know Vlad:
- Favorite food – Pizza
- Favorite musician/artist – Pink Floyd
- Favorite movie – Pulp Fiction
- Favorite book – A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Hobby – Workout, goes for drives, spend time with family
Topics:
- Robinhood’s strong business and financial results
- Plans for Tokenized Stocks
- 24/7 Markets
- Launching a public blockchain on Arbitrum
- Robinhood’s crypto service expansion
- USDG Stablecoin and Robinhood’s role in the consortium
- AI integration into investing and markets
- Meme coins
- Future of markets
Links:
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Timestamps
02:01 Vision for Robinhood
04:37 Business & Financial performance
08:10 Disrupting wall Street & TradFi
09:59 AI Investing & Markets
11:37 24/7 markets
15:51 Tokenized Global markets
20:16 Blockhain on Arbitrum
21:46 Crypto services
24:07 Staking yield
25:28 Crypto business in 2030
26:27 USDG Stablecoin
30:18 Clarity Act
31:47 Future of markets
36:06 TradFi embracing crypto
43:00 Meme coins
45:21 Tokenized rewards
50:46 What Vlad would be doing if Robinhood was not founded
51:32 Wrap up questions
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