Vlad Tenev
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So our vision is really can we build a financial super app where all of your financial needs are met in one place and all of your finances are managed to the best of our ability at Robinhood.
Yeah, well, I've spoken to the president and obviously the government about this personally.
And basically, while we can't give you the details of what we're involved in or what we're talking about, I think this is incredibly important.
I think we have a huge risk in this country of people not believing in
the free markets and in the financial system because they don't have skin in the game.
I think it's especially a problem now when we're in this massive wave of AI-driven disruption.
So you're seeing AI products being adopted at an accelerating rate, but at the same time,
AI being generally unpopular because people are pretty worried about what impact it's going to have on them and their jobs.
And I think the best way to actually counteract this is from an early age, give people a stake in what's being built in the great industries of this country.
So I think it's a great initiative and we've assured them that we're standing ready to help in the maximal way possible.
I think we're thinking of a lot of things.
And what I'm mostly interested in is, you know, obviously not to downplay Robinhood has thousands of employees.
But I think our value is we serve tens of millions of customers in the U.S.
And we've got, you know, over a third of a trillion in assets on the platform.
So, yeah.
we're sort of like thinking bigger, like how can we help every single company and every single individual in this country plug into the system?
Of course, we're interested in thinking for our employees, but the impact of that is like relatively low when it comes to the whole country.
And we're really thinking about how can we help the whole country and this program be as successful as possible.
Yeah, so it's an agentic system, which maybe you guys have heard this buzzword before, but it's not actually just purely the underlying models.
We use a variety of models under the hood to power different, you can think of them as experts on our platform.