SCOUT· 43%1h 10m·2026-11-11·BusinessBuilding Robinhood, Surviving GameStop & A $500 Million Phone Call | Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. He was born in Bulgaria in 1987 and moved to the US at age five, a few years before hyperinflation wiped out his grandparents' savings. His parents kept the family afloat on a grad student's budget, and Vlad grew up as a latchkey kid teaching himself computers and…
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