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Robinhood's zero-commission model forced legacy broker consolidation like the Schwab-TD merger
“I think that's what ultimately led to sort of our model becoming the dominant industry model and everyone else having to replicate it and a huge wave of consolidation. Like you're seeing now with Schwab and TD Ameritrade and Morgan Stanley and E trade where, y…”
Tenev: Studies on Day-Trading Losses Are Outdated Due to Commission Elimination
“Those studies, a lot of them are from the nineties or earlier. And you see the dominant factor being commissions. It's like, oh, they're trading a lot. And so the commissions are eating up like nearly all of the returns. And now, you know, we remove commission…”
Tenev: Long-Term Savers Make Up Most Robinhood Users and Activity
“Everyone's talking about the relatively small number of people that are trading actively and, you know, doing more speculative activity. And I don't think too many of the stories about, you know, the folks that are Stashing money away slowly over long periods …”
Vlad Tenev: Bitcoin requires legacy financial system integration to survive long term
“I think to some extent, like in order for it to be successful, like having a you know, having, having a regulated framework behind it and having sort of like acceptance and integration into the legacy financial system is going to be a prerequisite. On the othe…”
Tenev: Calling retail investors 'dumb money' is offensive and harmful
“And that that's really the thing that bothers me most about that movie is this idea that retail investors are dumb money. I find that condescending and offensive. So, you know a lot of people ask me what I think about that movie. It's like the title itself jus…”
Tenev: Successful competitor brokerages blatantly copy Robinhood's UI
“The user interfaces of the brokerage products that are doing well have all tended to begin to resemble Robinhood's user interface over time. You know, it's just like, it's gone from inspiration to more and more kind of blatant copying, I would say.”
Tenev: Legacy Banks Require Phone Calls Due to Outdated Mainframes
“I actually don't think they're capable right now of providing you that experience digitally. I think what happened was they have to provide that experience over the phone with humans. They're running on mainframes and they have legacy technology and they use t…”
Tenev: Robinhood offers market's first and only built-in retirement match
“We've rolled out retirement products where we offer the first and only built in match on the market, and you're seeing that, you know, continuing to resonate.”
Tenev: Many Robinhood meme-stock and crypto traders transition to wealth-building products
“We've seen in many cases, customers coming in through buying an individual stock or even buying a cryptocurrency, and they kind of see the potential of building their wealth, and then they see all the things that we're offering”
Tenev: Active traders are more resilient due to sophisticated trading strategies
“Active traders tend to be more resilient because they engage in more sophisticated strategies. You know, they can, they have strategies that they deploy to take advantage of falling markets or markets that tend to be like up and down.”