Telis Demos
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Dec 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Robinhood Aims to Expand But Still Make Investing Fun · 16 Dec 2024
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On the one hand, that sort of maybe differentiated them from what seemed like stodgy other kind of brokerage brands.
But it also drew a lot of criticism toward them because it made it seem like have they made investing too fun and too accessible?
And have they gamified what should be a serious business?
And that's something that they've had to deal with.
And that's something that we also talked with Vlad about.
Who exactly is a customer at Robinhood is evolving.
What Robinhood told investors at this investor day was that one of their core customers is not just the newbie who wants to YOLO and, oh, I heard Tesla is a great stock.
I want to buy it, right?
That isn't necessarily their customer.
core customer or the engine of their business.
They want to go after what they call active traders, and that is people who are serious about trading and investing.
They're semi-professionals, essentially.
And what Robinhood has done is they have sunk a lot of money into developing tools for that type of investor.
But also the tools that those people demand are things that they can then filter through to everyone else, that Robinhood sees its audience as really, you know, those active traders are at the center of it.
These prediction market contracts have really been around in some form for a while.
But what has happened more recently is that there are now –
readily tradable sort of futures products and other contracts that are available to people, not through like specialized offshore venues like they used to be that were difficult for the average person to use.
Now, like in your Robinhood app and in Interactive Brokers, another company that offers prediction contracts, these are now like in your pocket.
And so it's a wider audience of people that are getting into this.
It comes in a few different flavors, but you will buy something that pays out if you're
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