Vlad Tenev

It does resonate.

I talked to the guys from Stripe who ended up actually agreeing.

I think I managed to convince them or annoy them enough for them to agree.

They were very negative to opening up to retail initially, but then they were one of our first participants in Robinhood Ventures.

And they were basically like, look, this is just a small Irish family business.

Like,

Why do you, why do I have to do anything I don't want to do?

And I think that kind of resonates with me, right?

If you want to just, if you're following the rules, then you should be able to basically do what you want.

So I wouldn't just go as far to say everyone absolutely needs to be public, but-

Yeah, I mean, I think it's an honor to be public.

I mean, it was something, obviously, when I first became interested in business in my 20s, it was sort of like the dream.

A goal.

Yeah, one day, you know, if you could be a public company, and not everyone does that.

Yeah.

There's very few things like that.

And now I have two bell ringings, one a NASDAQ, one a NYSE.

Maybe hopefully we'll have a lot more.

But yeah, very much it's like core to Robinhood.

Robinhood is about giving you access to public markets.