Vlad Tenev
As Robinhood eyes global expansion, CEO says: ‘We’ve made a lot of progress’
Ten years ago, Robinhood was founded to “democratize” stock trading, or more simply, to make it more accessible for anyone to trade stocks. Over time, the now publicly traded company…
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Robinhood banks on retirement to slow user attrition
Retail trading app Robinhood is entering the retirement game. The Menlo Park, California-based company today launched a waitlist for its new offering, Robinhood Retirement, which it describes as the “first and only” individual retirement account (IRA) with a 1% match on every eligible dollar contributed. The move is a big bet on the part of…
Robinhood lets users manage their own crypto wallets in push to spur trading
After a difficult first quarter, investing app Robinhood is doubling down on new product launches, particularly in its crypto unit, in hopes they will help buoy the business. CEO Vlad…
Robinhood’s layoff announcement comes days before the company is expected to report its Q1 2022 financial performance.
Lightning Labs raises funding to enable stablecoin transfers through Bitcoin network
Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. The company just raised…
FrankieOne nabs $16M to provide fintechs with ID and fraud management as a service
Fraud continues to be a major issue in the world of digital transactions, a situation that research shows was only compounded in the last 20 months of online activity growing…
Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades
It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write…
As Morgan Stanley buys E-Trade, Robinhood preps social trading
Before it was worth $7.6 billion, the original idea for Robinhood was a stock-trading social network. At my kitchen table in San Francisco in 2013, the founders envisioned an app…
It is approaching a year since TechCrunch broke news that Robinhood was stealthily recruiting for a London office ahead of plans to expand to the U.K. And in August the…
Robinhood cuts trading fees, grows profits with in-house clearing
As zero-commission stock trading app Robinhood starts preparing to IPO, an engineering investment two years in the making could accelerate its quest for profitability. Most stock broker services have to pay…
Robinhood hires Josh Elman as VP of product, who’ll stay at Greylock
Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is getting some product firepower as it dives into cryptocurrency and weighs platform aspirations. Investor Josh Elman will join Robinhood as its VP of product…
What does the future of the financial services industry look like? The founders of two startups with two very different answers to that question took the stage at the TechCrunch…
Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev On Stock Market Turmoil And Eliminating Trading Fees
This might not seem like the best time to be running a startup focused on stock market trading, but Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, still sees plenty of opportunities. “There’s…
