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I run outside almost every day of the week.
I sleep about six and a half hours per night.
I don't use an alarm. I wake up naturally at 7 A.M.
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, they had this resiliency.
Everyone should be investing in our free market economy.
Investing is the biggest driver of wealth in our country.
We are legitimate players in the financial services industry.
Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.
Pundits will be pundits. We don't think too much of the punditry.
The human brain is really bad at thinking about exponential things.
The financial services industry is failing the millennial generation.
Tinkering with, and building the products Robinhood ships brings me joy.
The best thing to do with our markets is to have more people participate.
I like to have prolonged blocks of time where I don't have meetings scheduled.
To do your best work, you have to enjoy what you do and the people around you.
Robinhood exists so that everyone can share in the stock market's wealth creation.
Our financial system, for as advanced a country that we are, could be so much better.
It's really, really, important that this country as a whole trusts its financial system.
I like to also have an hour and a half around lunchtime every day, set aside to exercise.
I think all of these companies staying private for as long as they are is actually pretty bad.
We want to say in unambiguous terms that we're a different type of financial services company.
As consumers adopt crypto, we hope that they'll also be interested in trading equities and options.
I limit how often I let technology interrupt my day, which given my line of work, isn't always easy.
There's just something very, very satisfying feeling like I have my investments right there in my pocket.
For many users, cryptocurrencies are going to be their first foray into investing, and we want to be there.
We didn't build Robinhood to make the rich people richer. The mission is to help the everyman, the rest of us.
We fundamentally want to make people's lives simpler. So we will look for technology that works toward that end.
When we first announced it, we had over a million people sign up to use Robinhood Crypto in the first couple of days.
In order for us to be successful... we have to be able to and be open-minded enough to reinvent ourselves every six months.
Margin trading will drive the lion's share of our revenue, which is like a loan that lets people have more money to trade with.
Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.
I think its very easy to try to launch things too quickly and do things too quickly and not pay attention to the details along the way.
The fact that a lot of people, especially younger folks, are not investing in the stock market is something we really think needs addressing.
We generate a ludicrous amount of trades in $1 to $5 stocks. Because we're free, we're the only place where you can day trade stuff like that.
Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.
Most nights of the week I make it a point to get home in time to have dinner with my wife. It's a simple routine to maintain my work-life balance.
If people don't think about their finances and get involved with building a financial trajectory early in life, it's kind of a substantial problem.
I have to be very diligent about making sure I'm taking care of my body and my mind, because if I'm not, the quality of my decision making goes down.
Our move to offer free options trading is rooted in the belief that sophisticated investment tools don't need to be complex or reserved for the wealthy.
I have a cup of coffee for breakfast every day, but I don't have a go-to food. Sometimes it's a cup of yogurt, sometimes oatmeal, most of the time nothing.
While we should be moving very quickly and building great products for our consumers, it should never come at the expense of security, uptime, things like that.
I like beating the Bay Area traffic by getting into the office early, plus I get at least an hour most mornings to work on personal projects before I'm pulled into meetings.
Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the world, rather than to enrich a few.
I think the customers that Robinhood will get at the beginning are younger, smaller accounts that are too hard for Schwab and E-trade to make money off anyway. They've neglected that market.
I'm not sure whether it counts as a talent, but I love playing 'Magic: The Gathering.' It's mathematical and intellectually challenging, and makes me feel nostalgic for when I played as a kid.
In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we're holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don't stay really genuine to that, it's very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.
Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens and forests mixed into urban areas. The public transit is also fantastic and there are cat cafes everywhere.
It's really more convenient for people to have one app on their phone that is the go-to for that activity. We see an opportunity as we add more services and features to Robinhood to really be on that one app for all customers' finances.
The American stock market is a profoundly useful and mature idea that our society has created. We as a society have said, 'Let's take the best industrial creations of our people and break up ownership into pieces so everyone can own a stake.'
People have been like 'well you need millions of dollars to buy and sell stocks.' That sort of idea was thrown out of the window with online brokerages like E-trade and Fidelity, and today, we think that you don't even need thousands of dollars to trade stocks.