Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev to founders: focus, stay few steps ahead &“make smtg simple &build frm there”
About this episode
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 …