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Robinhood: Vlad Tenev

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Venture capitalists, angel investors had concerns about many things, right Could this team of mathematicians build This beautiful consumer product that they're talking about building. It's an extremely competitive space with like gigantic incumbent competitors that spend billions of dollars a year on marketing. These guys are telling us that they can make it work.

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I'm Guy Raz and on the show today how two college friends built an easy on-ramp to Wall Street. By launching Robin Hood. A stock trading app that even in the midst of controversy It's grown to thirteen million users. One of the most common arguments made by promoters of social media

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