Vlad Tenev

this old like brick and mortar in-person way of doing finance.

I mean, look at 24-7 trading.

So it used to be that even now markets are open according to East Coast Wall Street working hours, right?

9.30 to 4 p.m.

Eastern.

But, you know, we rolled out 24-hour market.

We unshackled that.

And now it's kind of like increasingly markets open Sunday evenings when our 24-hour market session starts.

And I think eventually it'll just be indistinguishable.

So we're kind of getting rid of the last vestiges of being tied to East Coast, U.S., New York working hours.

Tell me about your media diet.

I try to ignore most things.

The things that are hard for me to ignore are just X. I post on X and I use it a lot for work.

And then my feed is kind of this sort of combination of AI related news.

Probably half of it is AI related and the other half is like financial services, politics and Robinhood related.

I think now I believe that I can do anything and that all it takes is the desire to want to do it.

I think when I was young, I very much felt like I was like,

subject to forces outside of my control and a relatively small amount of things that I could do were under my control.

Like I could do well in school, I could do my homework, get good grades, but where I lived, what country I was in, what school I went into, outside of my control and the idea of actually creating

a business or building something like a physical thing that mattered felt a little bit outside of the realm of possibility.