Vladimir Tenev
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To some degree, it's good in a way that it came up with that, because it just means we haven't had any big controversies.
Knock on wood, where's this?
What happened was there was the very sort of sexy false narrative of hedge fund collusion, like how Robin Hood was colluding with all these guys.
I don't know if you guys remember this, that the White House called me.
and asked me to shut down trading of GameStop.
Now, this thing went nuts on social media.
There's a Reddit post about Joe Biden and the White House made a call to Vlad Tenev.
Some fake engineer had posted it saying, I overheard the conversation.
The White House was on the horn.
And Sequoia Capital, one of our investors, had to publish a statement publicly saying that
they weren't involved in this white house Robin hood thing.
So, you know, the, the juicy narrative that's like simple and sort of like nefarious people love conspiracy theories.
And I think we didn't do a good job of like quelling it.
So you, you ask a random person on the street, they're like, Oh, well the game stop.
Wasn't that just like the hedge funds and Robin hood.