FULL SEND PODCAST Vladimir Tenev | Ep. 184
Feb 3, 2026
Vladimir Tenev, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood and founder of AI company Harmonic, built commission-free trading and math-capable AI. He talks about Robinhood’s mobile-first growth, product expansions like banking and social trading, the GameStop controversy, tokenization of assets and crypto, and Harmonic’s Aristotle model that solves hard math and research problems.
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From Math PhD To Startup Founder
- Vladimir Tenev left a math PhD to start companies after the 2008 crisis with his college friend from an algorithmic trading firm.
- Their first two ideas failed and Robinhood was the third idea that they kept iterating on until it scaled.
Three Forces That Enabled Robinhood
- Robinhood grew from a
