Words matter. These are the best Baiju Bhatt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Robinhood exists so that everyone can share in the stock market’s wealth creation.
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns’ by Robert Jungk and ‘Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!’ by Richard Feynman were both books my father purchased for me when I was in high school. Both left a lasting impression on me, because they chronicle the lives of some of the most creative scientists of the 21st century.
I’d like to believe people know how to educate themselves.
The financial services industry is failing the millennial generation.
Pundits will be pundits. We don’t think too much of the punditry.
The best thing to do with our markets is to have more people participate.
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.
To do your best work, you have to enjoy what you do and the people around you.
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.
Investing is the biggest driver of wealth in our country.
If I walk down the street wearing a Robinhood T-shirt, I get ambushed. It’s kind of weird.
As consumers adopt crypto, we hope that they’ll also be interested in trading equities and options.
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.
Companies should go public and they shouldn’t raise $7bn before they do.
The human brain is really bad at thinking about exponential things.
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.
One of the things we say a lot internally is that we take money really seriously.
When we first announced it, we had over a million people sign up to use Robinhood Crypto in the first couple of days.
Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.
We had a bunch of models for user adoption of Robinhood Gold. The data team had some silly names for a range of adoption levels: ‘Mediocre expectations,’ ‘middle-of-the-road expectations’ and ‘great expectations.’ The numbers we ended up with were significantly higher than ‘great expectations.’
Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.
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 run outside almost every day of the week.
I think all of these companies staying private for as long as they are is actually pretty bad.
I don’t use an alarm. I wake up naturally at 7 A.M.
I limit how often I let technology interrupt my day, which given my line of work, isn’t always easy.
We want to say in unambiguous terms that we’re a different type of financial services company.
We didn’t build Robinhood to make the rich people richer. The mission is to help the everyman, the rest of us.
I don’t think there’s a particular technology that will set the trajectory for us moving forward. We don’t want to be one of the companies that say AI is the next big thing, let’s go build an AI application for Robinhood. That might not work. It might be awkward.
I’m by far my most creative and my most productive early in the day.
I like to have prolonged blocks of time where I don’t have meetings scheduled.
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.
Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.
Free is a difficult model to get to work right. But it’s better for consumers.
I like to also have an hour and a half around lunchtime every day, set aside to exercise.
