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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev discusses the company's record year, expanding to 11 business lines generating over $100M in annual revenue, innovative earnings calls, prediction markets, tokenization efforts, and long-term vision for global financial domination.
John Law, a Scottish gambler and fugitive, becomes a key financial innovator who helps shape the modern monetary system through his gambling, economic theories, and eventual rise to power in France during a time of financial crisis.
An exploration of rising auto loan delinquencies reveals a complex economic landscape where surging prices, higher interest rates, and escalating insurance costs are creating financial pressure for consumers across income levels.
Helen Hastings founded Quanta, an AI-powered accounting software for software and services companies, by first having humans do the work of analyzing financial data, which helped her raise $20 million and develop a more efficient, AI-driven accounting platform that provides real-time financial insights.
Jim Chanos breaks down the risks in AI infrastructure investing, highlighting the commodity-like nature of data center hosting, the potential for massive GPU depreciation, and the concerning trend of unprofitable AI companies driving massive capital expenditures.
Jack Zhang, the co-founder of Airwallex, shares his journey from a small town in China to building a global fintech company, turning down a billion-dollar Stripe acquisition offer and transforming the way businesses move money internationally.
Dan Ivascyn discusses the changing fixed income landscape, the potential for bond investments in 2025, and the opportunities in global markets amid evolving economic and political conditions.
Steve McLaughlin, founder of FT Partners, shares insights into the future of fintech, highlighting the transformative potential of AI, tokenization of real-world assets, and the importance of building innovative, globally-focused financial technology companies that can potentially become trillion-dollar enterprises.
A deep dive into the credit card industry reveals why interest rates are so high, exploring factors like marketing costs, interchange fees, and the surprising insensitivity of consumers to high borrowing rates.
Vlad Tenev discusses the evolution of online brokerage platforms, Robinhood's journey from launching during the financial crisis to becoming a multi-product financial platform, and explores emerging trends like prediction markets, tokenization, and AI's impact on financial services.
Andrea Brimmer, Ally's CMO, shares insights on balancing brand and performance marketing by reframing the approach as "demand generation and demand capture," emphasizing the importance of creating emotion in an unemotional category and treating brand as a shared organizational asset.
A wide-ranging conversation with Will Gaybrick, President of Technology and Business at Stripe, covering the company's strategies in stablecoins, AI, payments infrastructure, risk management, and why they haven't gone public yet.
Rocket Mortgage CEO Varun Krishna and a16z's Alex Rampell discuss how housing has become a wealth transfer machine, with the median homebuyer age rising from 30 to 38, and explore strategies to transform the homeownership experience through technology, vertical integration, and AI-driven solutions.
Michael Howell discusses the Federal Reserve's decision to stop quantitative tightening, predicting inevitable balance sheet expansion in 2026 while warning that the proposed liquidity injections are insufficient to address underlying market tensions and debt refinancing challenges.
In an intimate conversation, DBS CEO Tan Su Shan discusses the bank's digital transformation, Singapore's success story, and her leadership philosophy, emphasizing the importance of embracing AI while maintaining human connection and staying curious about emerging trends.
Zach Abrams from Bridge and Henri Stern from Privy discuss the current state and future potential of stablecoins, highlighting their growing importance in cross-border payments, emerging markets, and financial infrastructure while exploring how they're transforming global money movement.
In this episode of Business Breakdowns, Matt Reustle interviews Arthur Olson about Robinhood's evolution from a mobile-first, commission-free trading platform to a comprehensive financial services company targeting younger investors, driven by product innovation, technological efficiency, and a focus on expanding its revenue streams beyond traditional trading.
A wide-ranging episode covering the California billionaire tax proposal, an NBA gambling scandal, Amazon's AWS outage and robotic automation plans, Tesla's earnings and Elon Musk's pay package, and emerging AI model biases.
A deep dive into CompoSecure, a niche manufacturer of premium metal credit cards with an 80% market share, exploring its innovative manufacturing, strategic relationships with major card issuers, and potential growth under Dave Cody's leadership.