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Vlad Tenev Robinhood on rapid grwth, getting to unicorn, engaging millennials & vision beyond stocks

May 31, 20176:05Watch on YouTube

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Watch full episode: https://youtu.be/eFgzVXiHgq0 We are pleased to have one of Jason’s investments as our guest today, Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev. Tenev went to Stanford in 2004 looking to become an academic, first studying physics and later math. During this time, he met and became good friends with his co-founder Baiju Bhatt. Together, they started a bootstrapped and profitable software company called Chronos Research, which was formed to respond to the increased influence of algorithmic trading in the financial industry. This inspired them to build something bigger than just software …