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Shaan Puri: Robinhood's gamified design exploits unsophisticated retail traders
“Robinhood is designed the same way. Robinhood is literally designed like a mobile game to get you addicted to trade, to get you to try to trade as much as you can. They make money. Every time you make a trade, they don't make money by you buying a low cost ind…”
Puri: Robinhood is prime beneficiary of generational wealth transfer
“And it's basically this financial super app that Gen Z slash millennials are most comfortable with. And as the wealth transfer happens, they're going to be the beneficiary of that. So I think next 20 years, they're extremely well positioned.”
Puri: Pulled All Money From Robinhood Because CEO Lied About Halts
“I took all my money off of Robinhood after that happened. I just fundamentally, morally was against what had happened. I believe that the CEO lied and is continues to lie basically about what happened during, during that period of time.”
Shaan Puri: Robinhood now effectively offers sports betting via prediction markets
“All these other apps now do sports betting, but they call it prediction markets, and prediction markets are legal, so Robinhood now has sports betting in its app, even though it's not not a casino. You could just go in Robinhood right now and bet on sports.”
Robinhood's founder ran a failed Kickstarter to document building the startup
“Vlad from Robin Hood, when Robin Hood was getting started, he put up a Kickstarter. Saying, hey, I'm going to try to build this company that's going to change the way the financial markets work. And if you guys fund 10,000 dollars, we'll film it. Because how c…”