Tenev: Leaders should build confidence by publicly reversing small mistakes first
Vlad Tenev · The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder · Mar 3, 2026 · at 20:36
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev offers management advice on how leaders can overcome the fear of admitting error and rolling back prior decisions.
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“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 that I completely screwed up. It was a wrong decision, and now we're taking it back... And then you realize, well, maybe it's not so scary that you can do it for a serious thing. And then maybe eventually you can do it for three or four things simultaneously.”
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