Public.com

“So we went out to like professional women's communities, right? We parted with like Girlboss, for example. Sofia Moroso's thing. People who've never invested before, Just went in front of them cold and be like, we built this. If you want to invest, we think th…”

“In the millions.”

“GameStop was like, we doubled in 40 hours or something.”

“And that, sorry, and that actually meant in turn that people were speculating less, because I think on platforms like Robinhood and others, you were kind of seeing some people getting into a lot of, like, single, like, high concentration risk portfolios, maybe…”

“The user base was growing 50 to a hundred percent every month. And that compounds a lot when you do that for three years in a row, and so you're just really trying to, like, scale the platform”

“Funnily enough, because we're the only ones that still have that, and so obviously that's been a great differentiator for the last couple of years, especially as yields have gone up”

“We had a lot of things where like we had account transfer ads that was kind of ready to go that we could upload without having to go through approval on all the social media sites or compliance, et cetera, because they're pre-signed off and stuff like that.”

“There was like a one specific 18 month period where I think it went up 25 or 30 X or something.”

“That is really what kind of clicked with people. That's when you start to see, you know, daily active usage that was like 60, 70% on the down mile ratio basis, right? And super, super high retention, super high engagement”

“We were the first to actually do that real time thing that didn't exist before.”

“Buying the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 at the time would cost you 15,000 dollars. So that's why people got to this thing of like, yeah, I need to save up money and then make the big leap.”

“We are competing with Robin Hood. I do think though, as the years have gone on, we've become a little bit less competitors. I think we focus a little bit more Sort of higher end of the market. People that want to take investing a little bit more seriously.”

“We are one of the few few ones left standing because I kid you not, 98% of them have closed down. And maybe there was only about a hundred, so, like, that's pretty easy, man.”

“Like we launch it after Labor Day. We've got all the dashboards set up. And literally it's just one of these things where you go and you refresh the dashboard after the first day, after the first week, and All the metrics are just up and to the right. Five, 10…”

“How fast did you hit maybe a million MAUs or whatever? Probably 18 months, two years. I mean, GameStop was a step change, right? So it was all around there. So yeah, call it those kind of 18 months.”

“And when you stop hiring, you have higher output because all of your time, like every employee is in the J curve, they actually take time before they start being productive.”

“Like at least that's, that was the kind of the wedge that made them popular was they're one of the first to do, to buy fractional shares, like in trade them in real time.”