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Vlad Tenev

28 statements across 5 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 30, 2020 by Vlad Tenev · said 71 times in 24 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Nov 30, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tenev taught himself iOS development using free Stanford lectures on 2x speed
“Watching the awesome Paul Haygarty iOS development lectures through Stanford, which were available for free. You could watch them at 1.5 X or two X. That's how I learned iOS development basically from first principles”
Vlad Tenev Nov 30, 2020 ▶ 15:53 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
Nov 30, 2020
Insight
Tenev: Scaling past 1,000 employees requires abandoning a scarcity mindset
“It's required a shift in the way that I think about it as well, because you have to kind of get out of the scarcity mindset a little bit rather than asking, how can we do more with less and be just like, Extremely, extremely efficient. You ask, what would it l…”
Vlad Tenev Nov 30, 2020 ▶ 18:03 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
Nov 30, 2020
Assertion Supported
Tenev: 10% of US households hold nearly 90% of invested capital
“Right now, very few people, very few households in America invest, and 10% of households have nearly 90% of the total invested capital.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 30, 2020 ▶ 24:36 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
Nov 30, 2020
Disclosure
Tenev uses a dumb phone and traditional alarm clock to minimize distractions
“So I actually have a really old school alarm clock that just rings. I also have a dumb phone, and in certain situations, I just swap out my SIM card from my smartphone and put it in my dumb phone.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 30, 2020 ▶ 20:31 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
Mar 4, 2021
Assertion Supported
Robinhood raised $5.6 billion total, including a $2.4 billion emergency round
“To date, Vlad has raised over 5.6 billion dollars with Robin Hood, including a 2.4 billion dollar raise just this month, and some of their investors include the likes of Ribbit, Sequoia, Green Oaks, Index, IVP, Thrive, GV, and more incredible names.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 0:27 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
Mar 4, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Tenev denies Robinhood colluded with hedge funds to restrict meme stock trading
“The idea that somehow the most wrong thing was this allegation of collusion that we're somehow colluding with hedge funds that we have no business relationship with to somehow restrict buying of these stocks. Yeah, I think that was just wrong.”
Vlad Tenev Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 9:15 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
Mar 4, 2021 neutral
Insight
Tenev: Wealth inequality is largely driven by the retail investing gap
“Inequality can largely be explained by the investing gap. The wealthy invest their money, and that has compounded historically at very, very high rates.”
Vlad Tenev Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 7:47 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
Jan 28, 2022
Assertion Supported
Yang: Robinhood was Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt's third venture together
“That's where I first spent time with Vlad, got really excited about what they were building and really hearing the founding story behind him and Beiju coming together for a third time, actually for Robin Hood.”
Rick Yang Jan 28, 2022 ▶ 4:23 20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
Jan 28, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Robinhood founders built high-frequency trading software before Occupy Wall Street pivot
“So they had built software for high-frequency trading firms, and you saw sort of this shift in their founding story when they kind of realized that they were part of the problem that was starting to manifest itself at the time with Occupy Wall Street, really t…”
Rick Yang Jan 28, 2022 ▶ 5:04 20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
Nov 1, 2024 positive
Opinion
Tenev: Capital markets access should replace homeownership as the American dream
“I wrote a piece one time about how investing and access to capital markets is like the, should be the real American dream. Everyone should be doing it like they were talking about home ownership decades prior.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 38:51 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024
Insight
Tenev: Robinhood's best products spark internally, not from customer research
“I think the initial idea, the spark came from within and it didn't come from customer research or a lot of feedback, but I think customers play a much bigger role in refining the idea and actually like we ping pong ideas off of customers.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 8:45 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vlad Tenev received crisis advice from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Benioff
“You know, I never talked to Elon Musk before, but he kind of wanted to give me some advice on how to handle the situation. I talked to Zuck, Mark Benioff.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 19:36 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024 negative
What-if
Tenev: Robinhood should have withheld statements until full story was clear
“In hindsight, maybe like not saying anything until giving the entire story of how everything happened, I think would have probably worked better.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 18:40 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Vlad Tenev: AI reasoning models will start replacing knowledge workers within years
“And so I think you will see that in the next couple of years, really really start taking off and good products. Have recently become possible with like the latest models that can reason and make better decisions. The models are likely going to get better and b…”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 45:59 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Tenev: Investing and checking accounts both work as fintech entry wedges
“I think both work. I mean, obviously and I think that it kind of depends on what time scale you look at things by, right?”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 34:11 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood reversed its remote-first policy after immediate regret
“We announced that we were a remote first company. I immediately regretted it and then we had to pull that back and ask people to come to the office.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 51:45 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vlad Tenev: Robinhood CEO didn't sleep for 72 hours following $3B deposit call
“No, I didn't sleep for probably 72 hours after that.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 49:59 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024
Insight
Tenev: Great art must alienate people to be memorable
“Good art almost like alienates as many people as it Makes really happy. So if you're not like alienating anyone, probably everyone just feels somewhat neutral and it's not going to be memorable.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 7:35 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024
Insight
Vlad Tenev: Real AI businesses replace existing paid human services cheaply
“I think to me, if there is right now an existing market of people paying a human to do a service for them that AI could replicate at much lower cost, I think that's a real business.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 43:22 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024
Insight
Tenev: Fintech business models cannot be judged in five to ten years
“So sometimes it's difficult to judge these things in the first, Five to 10 years, or in the case of Robin Hood, the first one year.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 35:28 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Insight
Tenev: Robinhood's app makes ignoring stock price fluctuations nearly impossible
“It's I think it's very difficult. I don't know if it's easier with other companies, but my product pushes stock prices into your brain by using it. It's just hard to ignore. So I think it's especially difficult for a business like ours.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 1:24 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Opinion
Tenev: Revolut is more impressive than Chime due to product velocity
“I think I'm more impressed by Revolut. You know, Revolut's got product velocity, international scale strong founder, you know, impressive guy.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 40:52 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Opinion
Vlad Tenev: Being a public company CEO is enjoyable, not a nuisance
“I think it's great because I think we've flipped, in my head at least, from thinking about all the public company stuff like earnings and all of that from being a nuisance to being just a fun opportunity to connect with our community of shareholders and retail…”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 50:19 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Tenev: Robinhood's end state includes checking accounts for paychecks
“I do think that the end state of Robinhood involves the current account as well. Like we have to get people's paycheck. It's just easier that way if you can Have everything go through Robin Hood.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 41:26 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Men's Health Pictured 135 lb Deadlift Despite 400 lb Lift
“There's a mens health feature on me working out with my trainer, and you know, I think for that one I deadlifted close to 400 pounds, but they showed the picture of me deadlifting one 35 for some reason.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 56:04 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tenev: Chime targets paycheck-to-paycheck customers who do not invest
“Chime we don't butt into very much either because they're targeting sort of paycheck to paycheck customers. Their customers aren't really investing.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 41:08 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025
Disclosure
Stripe founders asked Robinhood not to tokenize their shares, says Tenev
“I've shared this viewpoint with Patrick and John, and they give me some variant of, oh, well, we're just a small Irish family company. Please don't tokenize my shares.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 0:19 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 14, 2025 positive
Opinion
Tenev: Catering to active traders was Robinhood's main turnaround driver
“And I think that was actually the number one reason behind our business turnaround. It's realizing that that was actually the core of our business, and if we had to, and we needed to invest in it in order to have resources to do other things well.”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 11:07 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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