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Tenev: Robinhood does not have any business with hedge funds
“We don't really have any business with hedge funds.”
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Tenev: Harmonic solved at least one unsolved Erdős problem
“There's something like 1100 Erdos problems. About half of them are open unsolved. And yeah, Harmonic solved at least one of them.”
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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…”
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Tenev: Harmonic surpassed Google AlphaProof's capabilities within one year
“Alpha Proof was the first AI model to get a silver medal, to achieve silver medal performance at the IMO last year.
But Alpha Proof they did not announce a gold this year.
So, yeah, we were we were, the Harmonic team was excited about that, that, you know, i…”
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Tenev: Tokenization will lead non-US private investing before entering US
“Tokenization will be the primary vehicle for ex-US investment until we get regulatory clarity and you'll see tokenization of privates seep into the US as well.”
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Tenev: Private companies will lose pricing control due to derivative markets
“So I think that it's gonna be tough increasingly in a global market to Have as much control over, over the price as maybe private companies have historically had.”
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Tenev: Retail access to private company shares will become standardized
“And I think the same thing is going to happen for private retail access. It's just going to go earlier stage, but the benefits are so strong that I think that there'll be It'll be standardized as time goes on.”
Opinion
Tenev: Legacy card issuers are too bloated to match 3% cash back
“I think it's a cost structure problem. You look at the big credit card companies and they have tens of thousands of people, right? Tens of thousands of people that are manually servicing the, these accounts and, you know, that they spend a ton of money on mark…”
Disclosure
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 …”
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood restricted GameStop trading for about one day
“We had to make a tough call to put GameStop and a bunch of other companies on position closing only, which basically meant you couldn't open up new positions, take on more risk for a period of about one day.”
Opinion
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…”
Insight
Tenev: Excessive corporate processes prevent companies from firing low performers
“Generally speaking, I think what most companies suffer from is process getting in the way and actually making it very, very difficult for people to get rid of low performers.”
Insight
Tenev: Brokerages Age Out Unless They Actively Hire Early-Career Talent
“A lot of the companies in our space tend to get older as they get further along, and the, you know, the folks working there can be more disconnected from the young people, and then that puts you at risk of becoming a more of a generational company in the sense…”
Disclosure
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.”
Assertion Supported
Tenev: Harmonic's Aristotle achieved gold medal performance at the IMO
“Earlier this year, we actually achieved gold medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad, which is the world's most prestigious mathematics competition. These are like cracked high schoolers, like five people got perfect scores in the Internat…”
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Tenev: The vast majority of Aristotle's training data is synthetic
“All of the data that the vast majority of the data that trains Aristotle is actually data that we generate. It's not, you know, internet data.”
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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…”
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Tenev: Push-button digital fundraising will happen for all companies
“You could imagine a digital fundraising process where you're plugged into, you know, an electronic market and you can push a button and you get the capital to run your business. I think that'll happen, not just for crypto companies, but for all types of compan…”
Disclosure
Tenev: Robinhood funds 3% card cashback via brokerage cross-sell flywheel
“So in order to get the three percent cash back, you actually have to deposit the funds into your brokerage account. And so we've created this flywheel through Robinhood Gold where by using the credit card, you also use the brokerage product... If someone uses …”
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Tenev: Robinhood gave free GameStop shares to new users in 2020
“GameStop was one of the collection of free, free stocks that was given to customers.”
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Tenev: Zuckerberg, Musk, and Benioff called during GameStop crisis
“Mark Zuckerberg called me, and Elon Musk called me, Mark Benioff called me”
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Tenev: Robinhood Has 11 Business Lines Generating Over $100M Annually
“We become a business that has 11 business lines now with over a hundred million in annual revenue.”
Insight
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…”
Insight
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'…”
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