Vlad Tenev
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375 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Vlad Tenev’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Number two was in addition to pioneering commission free trading and creating the gold standard business model of our industry now,
We also pioneered mobile trading.
So we were the ones that kind of led the platform shift to mobile before Robinhood.
I mean, you had some brokers that had launched mobile apps, but it was very much an afterthought.
But we made a bet that mobile was going to be big.
And in fact, it's going to be the primary way people engage with their finances because there's actual practical advantages to having it beyond mobile.
So we designed for that.
I think Robinhood really created the mobile brokerage industry and the market, which has become increasingly the default market and has been a leader there.
And then the third thing, which I think is important, is what the company stands for.
So, you look back at the global financial crisis in 2008, and a lot of our customers were kind of coming of age at that time.
I graduated college in 2008.
I went to grad school.
My first month in grad school, my co-founder Beju's first month at his job, Lehman Brothers went under.
So, you have the start of the global financial crisis.
And the way that our generation perceived the global financial crisis was that it was a problem imposed on them by the financial industry.
And the financial industry made poor decisions.
The cost of it was kind of socialized to some degree.
Nobody was punished.
And the ensuing recovery went to the financial industry or people that were already invested and kind of insiders to some degree, the top 1%.
This led to the Occupy Wall Street movement and this generational malaise in the early 2010s.
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