Five Questions for Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev
He’s bullish on the prospects for AI, crypto and Donald Trump.
Vlad Tenev, chief executive officer of investing app Robinhood.
Photographer: Timothy Mulcare for Bloomberg Businessweek
Their intent appears to be to ensure that the US is the best place to do business and the leader in both of the emergent technology industries coming to the fore: crypto and AI. They’ve got smart people thinking through these problems, and so we should expect the bureaucracy to be reduced, more regulatory clarity and hopefully tighter integration with the private sector to make it happen.
If we play this well, they will merge. So, I like to think about crypto less as a distinct, tradable asset and more as a new technology—so, along the chain of filing cabinet and pen and paper, to mainframes. If you’ve got a tradable token on all blockchains, and it’s liquid, that’s essentially an IPO.