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Part 6: Vlad Tenev: Robinhood Faced $3B Collateral Demand After GameStop's Price Exploded
Part 1: Vlad Tenev Dropped Out of College & Launched 2 Stock Trading Companies Before Robinhood
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Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev sits down with DJ Vlad to revisit the height of the GameStop trading frenzy, including the viral Clubhouse exchange where Elon Musk pressed him over whether Robinhood had acted improperly. Tenev explains why that public conversation became a turning point in changing perception after earlier interviews he now calls “corpo nonsense,” and describes being new in the CEO role during Covid as the crisis unfolded.
The discussion covers Robinhood restricting new positions, accusations from traders who believed GameStop could keep climbing, criticism from skeptics who said the meme stock chaos should never have happened, and the painful reality for investors who bought near the top and lost money. Tenev also addresses risk management, short selling, market structure, settlement periods for U.S. stocks, and how the fallout helped push Robinhood toward tokenization efforts.
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