Thread by @collision

In our latest Cheeky Pint, @vladtenev of Robinhood and I discussed hoarding Bulgarian copper pots, his pitch to tokenise private stocks, how Michael Lewis got Flash Boys wrong, Vlad’s admiration for Frank Slootman, and what he’d do as SEC Chairman. I also discovered that Vlad can do a handstand push up. (He nearly took down the Cheeky Pint set.)

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:58 Hyperinflation in Bulgaria
04:07 Stablecoins
05:41 Home country bias in investing
06:59 Robinhood’s origins
11:23 What the book Flash Boys got wrong
16:11 Options vs equities
17:38 Robinhood Gold
19:34 Robinhood Banking
22:04 GameStop advice from Benioff, Zuck, and Elon
26:40 Impact of retail investors on capital markets
31:21 Where retail dollars are coming from
32:10 The gamification narrative
34:17 Tokenizing private companies
41:57 Vlad makes his pitch to tokenize Stripe
45:00 Prediction markets: tennis, the pope, and AI
49:26 If Vlad ran the SEC
51:15 How does Robinhood ship so fast?
52:38 Remote work and Robinhood’s founder community
55:39 “What would Frank Slootman do?”
57:32 Active traders
59:46 Killing Robinhood’s cash card
01:02:36 Harmonic and mathematical superintelligence

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