Vlad Tenev
12 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2026 by Vlad Tenev · across every show →
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Mar 3, 2026 negative
Tenev: Company-wide wellness days make no sense and create operational risk
“I was like, I don't want to be a wellness day company. We have generous PTO. Take a PTO. And this whole idea that an entire org or team would take the same day off. That seems like a problem. What if there's an issue and we need someone? The entire org is taki…”
Mar 3, 2026 positive
Mar 3, 2026 positive
Tenev: Dumb Money was entertaining and Sebastian Stan casting was flattering
“I actually thought, you know, I know it didn't do very well, but I found it more or less entertaining. My favorite part, which maybe wouldn't be other people's favorite part, or maybe it would for some ladies there, was that my character was played by a very g…”
Mar 3, 2026 positive
Tenev: Robinhood is taking Robinhood Ventures public
“And with Rob, with Robinhood Ventures, we're taking that fun public, so we're doing another IPO, and I joked that yeah, it's kind of like that, the IPO process, I remember being painful, and I didn't like it, but I don't really exactly remember why, and now I …”
Mar 3, 2026
Tenev: Robinhood Avoids Routine 1-on-1s in Favor of On-Demand Meetings
“I don't like having a lot of one-on-ones and some people are big one-on-one fans, but over time I've You know, my one on ones are basically on demand when you need something critical or some important decision needs to be made.”
Mar 3, 2026 bullish
Tenev: AI market will see multiple domain-specialized models, not one winner
“I think there's going to be multiple models and it's really going to depend on the data that is used to feed them.
So for example, one thing that's great about Aristotle, which is harmonics model is you've got mathematicians that are using it to ask very comp…”
Mar 3, 2026 negative
Mar 3, 2026 negative
Mar 3, 2026 bullish
Tenev predicts AI mathematical proofs will scale to 100,000 pages in three years
“So, you know, right now, let's say you can easily at low cost produce a proof that's 10 pages long and actually we can produce longer ones, but just as an example per per unit cost and time, you can produce a 10 page proof while in a year it'll get to a hundre…”
Mar 3, 2026 negative
Tenev: Paying managers by team size incentivizes corporate empire building
“Think about a typical company. People are paid Generally proportional to the org size that they manage. And if you think about what that incentivizes empire building. I want to have a big org with a big team because then according to traditional HR metrics, I'…”
Mar 3, 2026
Tenev: Leaders should build confidence by publicly reversing small mistakes first
“Things get easier if you do them multiple times. And you could practice doing this once and making a big show of it. Like, actually, maybe you take a small thing that you were wrong about that you wanted to undo and just say, I want to tell you about something…”
Mar 3, 2026 positive
Tenev: Robinhood scaled from 700 staff to thousands and nearly $1B revenue in 2020
“We went from, I'd say, end of 20 19, we had 700 people and something like 202 hundred and change million in annual revenue to in the next year, end of 20 20, we had thousands of people and close to a billion in revenue. It's like a three, three, three X plus i…”