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Part 4: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on How Early Robinhood Investors Made Over $100M
Part 1: Vlad Tenev Dropped Out of College & Launched 2 Stock Trading Companies Before Robinhood
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Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev sits down with DJ Vlad to trace the fintech company’s rise after its 2015 launch, from early conversations and missed investment opportunities to major Silicon Valley funding rounds. Tenev explains how DST Global, Yuri Milner’s firm, backed Robinhood through multiple rounds, valuing the company at $1.3 billion in 2017, $5.6 billion in 2018, $7.5 billion in 2019, and around $15 billion in 2020—when his stake pushed him into billionaire territory on paper.
The conversation also covers Robinhood’s role in popularizing commission-free stock trading, forcing legacy firms like Fidelity and Merrill Lynch to respond, and how the app became synonymous with free trades. Tenev reflects on co-founder Baiju Bhatt stepping back as co-CEO in 2020 to become chief creative officer as Robinhood prepared for its IPO and entered a new phase of legal, operational, and product growth.
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