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Hecker: Trade Republic grew users and assets while Robinhood lost users in 2022
“So they are churning monthly active users, they're churning assets, they're churning activity. At the same time, TraderPublic has growing active numbers of customers, has growing assets, and has new savings plans. And by the way, nobody is quitting their savin…”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 34:53 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Brenner: Trade Republic had just 1,000 customers during its $10M Series A
“Well, it was five, six years ago. It was cheap in today's world. I'll tell you that. But on the other hand I felt expensive at that time, given a thousand customers in an A round of ten million.”
Johan Brenner Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 31:16 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Hecker: Trade Republic has reached four million clients
“We have four million clients”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 20:03 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Trade Republic bootstrapped until securing a banking license and 10,000 customers
“And so then we bootstrapped the rest between 2000 17 and 19. And once we had our banking license, And the first 10,000 paying customers, the VCs were all very excited all of a sudden and wanted to invest.”
Christian Hecker Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 5:14 Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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