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Robinhood

also referred to as: robin hood

includes Robinhood Gold Card, Robinhood Securities, Robinhood Gold, Robinhood Financial

49 statements across 11 episodes · 20 bullish · 15 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 30, 2021 by Jason Calacanis · said 324 times in 71 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (124), Chamath Palihapitiya (88), David Sacks (40), Vlad Tenev (28), David Friedberg (28), Kyle Samani (2), Brian Armstrong (2), Brad Gerstner (2)

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Everything said about Robinhood, oldest first

Jan 30, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Calacanis: VCs must be loyal "ride or die" partners to founders in crisis
“I am trying to work with the company to help them resolve the issues. And I need to be loyal to my founders. And I need to say, Hey, How do we resolve this? How do we get here and work with them? And I'm sorry that I'm ride or die. But that's how I approach th…”
Jason Calacanis Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 49:03 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 bearish
Prediction Partly held up
Chamath: Robinhood is going to get sued into oblivion
“I think that what's going to happen is they're going to get sued into oblivion.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 45:38 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Citadel handles 47% of payment for order flow volume
“Citadel is responsible for 47% of all the payment for order flow volume. They paid Robinhood almost sixty million dollars in the third quarter.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 14:27 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Robinhood trading halts cost retail investors billions of dollars
“It costs individuals, hundreds of millions, probably billions, maybe even tens of billions.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 3:48 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Robinhood drew down debt and raised $1B in emergency equity
“And so in that circumstance, they drew down debt, and they had to go get a billion dollars of equity.”
David Friedberg Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 30:32 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 bearish
Opinion
Chamath: Robinhood is the Lehman Brothers or Bear Stearns of 2021
“This is the, they are the Lehman brothers or Bear Stearns of 2008 to me.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 19:00 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Robinhood was massively under-equitized for customer trading risk
“Number one, it was under-equitized, right? At a minimum, the business was massively under-equitized.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 32:07 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 neutral
What-if
Calacanis: Chamath would defend Robinhood if he were an early investor
“If Chamath did the Series A in this, he would be backing up Robin Hood like this to the end of the end of Earth”
Jason Calacanis Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 1:02:47 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 negative
Opinion
Chamath: Robinhood should pause operations and allow user capital transfers
“I think the right thing to do is to stop the business, hit the pause button, allow people to elegantly transfer their money out.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 46:42 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Robinhood was insolvent and lacked capital during GameStop halt
“This company was insolvent. They did not have the capital requirements to post the margin that was being asked of them by their partners.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 3:29 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Investors won't back Robinhood at $11B valuation, but would at $3B
“Nobody's going to show up with five or ten billion dollars at eleven billion pre. They'll show up at five or ten billion dollars at three billion pre and they should take the money.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 59:56 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 bullish
Prediction Held up
Calacanis: Robinhood will survive the GameStop trading crisis
“They will not be. They will get through this, and there has, this is an unprecedented black swan event, I think we would all agree.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 19:06 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Robinhood expanded trading restrictions to nearly 40 stocks
“Robin Hood just tweeted that now the list of, ah, restricted names is now up to almost 35 or 40.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 44:09 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Jan 30, 2021 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Robinhood previously faced liquidity crisis and drew credit lines
“This happened in March of, they went through this liquidity crisis. They've had to draw credit lines before.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 30, 2021 ▶ 23:46 E19: Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?
Feb 3, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: DTCC demanded $3B in collateral from Robinhood
“The Depository and Trust and Clearing Corporation, which is Wall Street's main clearinghouse for stock trades demanded three billion dollars in additional collateral from Robin Hood, which they said was an order of magnitude more than usually required.”
Jason Calacanis Feb 3, 2021 ▶ 4:30 E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
Feb 3, 2021 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Robinhood employees will be creamed by $3.4B rescue dilution
“I'll tell you the only group of people that are for sure going to get completely creamed in this, which are employees.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 3, 2021 ▶ 18:04 E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
Feb 3, 2021 negative
Opinion
Sacks: Robinhood made a big mistake restricting customer trading
“And I actually think if that's all that was involved, that was a big mistake. I think Robinhood should have eaten it.”
David Sacks Feb 3, 2021 ▶ 9:42 E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
Feb 3, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Calacanis seeing rising secondary market bids for Robinhood shares
“All I know is I've been getting increasing offers for my Robin Hood shares in the secondary market”
Jason Calacanis Feb 3, 2021 ▶ 20:12 E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
Feb 13, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Tenev: Brokers using third-party clearing firms faced identical deposit demands
“Well, I think a lot of the a lot of the other brokers who relied on clearing firms had the same issue, right? You know, there's firms like Apex Clearing which has introducing brokers Cash App, for example, clears through a third party as well, and they all had…”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 8:17 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood restricted buying in 13 stocks to meet deposit requirements
“We just had to do what we did to meet our deposit requirements, because if we didn't do that, we would be in violation. And the consequences of that could have been much, much worse than simply halting buying in the 13 stocks.”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 5:05 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 negative
Prediction Held up
Chamath predicts Tenev will not allocate 100% of Robinhood IPO to retail
“100%, he will not.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 43:06 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Most Robinhood users do not use leverage or trade options
“Most of our customers don't use leverage. Most of our customers aren't active traders or trading options”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 17:52 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood's $3.4B raise provided liquidity, not a deposit bailout
“We met all of our deposit requirements. The new capital that we raised, the 3.4 billion, wasn't to meet our ongoing deposit requirements. We had met them and in order to relax them and eventually unrestrict them, we needed to raise some more capital and eventu…”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 7:28 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 bullish
Prediction Held up
Friedberg: Robinhood is almost certain to offer IPO shares to customers
“I think it's almost certain they're going to give some of the shares available in the IPO to Robinhood customer.”
David Friedberg Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 44:44 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood does not permit short selling by retail investors
“Robinhood actually doesn't allow short selling by individuals, but a lot of the other brokers do.”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 25:12 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tenev: SEC fine was for order flow disclosures, not gamification
“Yeah, well, so the fine wasn't for gamifying Robin Hood. It was for Payment for order flow and business model related related things. The gamification one is the Massachusetts securities securities one, which is a separate thing.”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 12:05 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: The GameStop short squeeze broke because Robinhood restricted buying
“Look, it was that Thursday where the short squeeze ended because WallStreetBets couldn't keep buying. They couldn't keep engineering their side of the trade. Right. Obviously, that's why it cracked, right? And Robinhood was a big part of that whole thing colla…”
David Sacks Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 46:25 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood was not pressured by outside forces to halt trading
“This wasn't, you know, a value judgment or some kind of moral stance and we weren't pressured into doing it by anything other than our regulatory deposit requirements.”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 37:02 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood should have provided more detail in trade restriction emails
“I think the automated emails that went out to customers saying your stocks are, you're restricted from buying these stocks probably could have been handled a little bit better. We probably could have offered more detail into that with the foresight that maybe …”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 30:13 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood shifted to intraday position limits across 50 stocks
“By Friday, we had moved to a much more sophisticated system where intraday we adjust the position limits in it was up to 50 stocks, and we published that on our website.”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 26:07 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Feb 13, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood options trading cannot be executed on margin
“Number one, you can't trade options on margin. So options are all fully paid for, right?”
Vlad Tenev Feb 13, 2021 ▶ 13:54 E22: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev breaks down the GameStop situation
Jul 3, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Calacanis: Robinhood investment will return 3x-4x Launch Fund 1
“This one deal will do three or four times the value of the first fund, the launch fund one, which was eleven million dollars.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 3, 2021 ▶ 22:23 E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
Jul 3, 2021 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacks: Robinhood will IPO at a $50B-$70B valuation
“Now they're going to be able to IPO at like a 50, 60, seventy billion dollar valuation”
David Sacks Jul 3, 2021 ▶ 21:57 E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
Jul 30, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Calacanis: Robinhood is his third biggest investment win after Uber and Calm
“It's my third biggest win. Uber, calm, and then this one.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 30, 2021 ▶ 1:14:37 E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
Jul 30, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Robinhood could eventually become a trillion-dollar company
“There's a chance this could go 10, 20, 30 x from here. I think it could be a trillion dollar company someday.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 30, 2021 ▶ 1:14:47 E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
Dec 11, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Jason Calacanis discloses he is holding all of his Robinhood stock.
“We're not dispensing stock advice, but I'm not selling any of my shares.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 11, 2021 ▶ 4:49 E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
Apr 19, 2024
Disclosure
Calacanis starts $100 monthly Robinhood investment club for his daughter
“With my 14 year old, I'm doing an allowance, and then I decided to do an investment club. And so I'm putting a hundred dollars every month into like a Robinhood account. And we're gonna do like two meetings every month, one to buy a new stock and one to examin…”
Jason Calacanis Apr 19, 2024 ▶ 1:26:29 Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
May 17, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Athena is growing faster than Uber and Robinhood did
“It's the fastest growing company I've ever seen. And I'm including Uber in that it has been growing at you know, A rate that I'll just say is faster than Uber and Robinhood when we were investing in them tens of millions of dollars.”
Jason Calacanis May 17, 2024 ▶ 1:14:43 GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Calacanis: Invested in Robinhood at a $20M valuation before launch
“It was a twenty million dollar valuation, but it's a good story, I think, because you hadn't launched, and we're at Antonio's Nuthouse.”
Jason Calacanis Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 1:20 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 15, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood faced enforcement actions and a Wells notice under Biden
“Last administration, we were playing a lot of defense. It was just sort of like one enforcement action, and we had a Wells notice in all aspects of Our business were sort of under assault”
Vlad Tenev Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 8:30 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood has a live prediction market on upcoming IPOs
“So for example, we have a prediction market live on the platform now about which companies are going to IPO.”
Vlad Tenev Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 16:41 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 15, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Robinhood has 20x upside remaining
“I think you've got 20 X left to go, but”
Jason Calacanis Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 1:14 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood offers public and private tokenized securities in the EU
“We've made both available to some extent in the EU.”
Vlad Tenev Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 12:50 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 15, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood was first to tokenize OpenAI and SpaceX shares
“We were actually, I think, the first to tokenize OpenAI and SpaceX, and we made that available to our retail customers in Europe in the form of a giveaway”
Vlad Tenev Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 4:48 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 15, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood holds over $250 billion in assets on platform
“We've got over a quarter trillion assets on the platform already”
Vlad Tenev Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 22:09 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood cannot currently offer synthetic contracts on private stock
“We can't do that currently and OpenAI in particular is a tricky one,”
Vlad Tenev Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 15:51 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing stocks, expanding access to private shares, fintech's future
Oct 10, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Calacanis says he paid under a penny per share for Robinhood stock
“I paid less than a penny for my shares, but yes, it went from 13 to one 50.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 0:59 Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
Oct 10, 2025 positive
Opinion
Sacks: Trump's crypto policies drove Robinhood's stock price surge
“By the way, what's the reason why your Robinhood stock is through the roof? Because of the crypto policies of the Trump administration.”
David Sacks Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 0:46 Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
Jan 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Retail gambling and prediction market platforms will be 2026's top asset
“My pick for best performing asset will be the Robinhood Polymarket prize picks, gambling, wagering space because people will be able to have a little cash around to make some bets. You could buy Coinbase in there too, I guess.”
Jason Calacanis Jan 10, 2026 ▶ 1:06:31 All-In's 2026 Predictions
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