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Trading platform Robinhood is launching a feature that will allow its users to lend out their stocks in hopes of earning passive, recurring income from borrowers, the company announced today.…

Robinhood to let users lend out their shares in its attempt to diversify revenue

Robinhood announced Tuesday that it will be bringing “24/7” phone support to its 31 million users. It’s a long-overdue move for the stock and crypto trading company founded in 2013,…

Robinhood finally brings on-demand phone support to all of its users

A jury will soon decide whether former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is guilty of a federal crime. But the deeper public policy questions that Theranos raised remain unanswered. How did…

The next Theranos should be shortable

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How Robinhood’s explosive growth rate came to be

Where does all that revenue come from?

1:02 pm PDT • July 1, 2021
How Robinhood’s explosive growth rate came to be

This afternoon Robinhood, the popular investing app for consumers filed to go public. The company intends to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol “HOOD.” That Robinhood released an S-1…

Robinhood files to go public after squeaking to profitability in 2020

Reddit has raised a new funding round, totaling $250 million. This is the company’s Series E round of financing, and it comes hot on the heels of renewed public attention…

Reddit raises $250 million in Series E funding