How Robinhood became a $68B company w/ Vlad Tenev

I was a founder my whole life and I always dreamed, gosh, I wish I could go to this demo conference or this PC forum, but they were even back then in the 90s and early 2000s, four, five, six thousand dollars a ticket. And back then they charged you to show your startup on stage. $20,000. Yeah. And I was like, well, that's some real bullshit.

I can't even afford the ticket. So I used to do something called lobby crashing. And I would find out where these like fancy conferences were and I would um buy the cheapest ticket possible, go in through two or three cities, get the cheapest hotel possible before Airbnb, and I would just hang out in the lobby with my laptop and hope to meet famous entrepreneurs, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and I I did actually do that, Michael Dell. I would see them in the lobby. This week in Startups is brought to you by Eru.

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