Robinhood: The Story of An $120 Billion Super App
27 October 2025

Robinhood: The Story of An $120 Billion Super App

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The Robinhood Biography is a podcast about the 13 year history of how two Stanford Graduates (Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt) created the world's first mobile-first trading app, ushered in the age of retail-investing and slowly built out a super app.


Robinhood today is worth over $120 Billion but after going public in 2021 at a $32 Billion valuation, the company stock dropped 80%! 


This is, the history of Spotify, told in a narrative form in under 105 minutes.


 


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