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Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner

2025-11-21 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·1h 5m ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
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Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when “serious” investors demanded desktop, a brand that made finance feel like rebellion instead of a club you’d never join. By 2021 they’d forced every major brokerage to