Robinhood Announces Tokenized Stocks! LIVE with CEO Vlad Tenev, Johann Kerbrat, and AJ Warner
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I'm here with Vlad, the, CEO of Robinhood right at the end of their, To Catch a Token Summit. Vlad, you guys, launched so many things today. As this wraps up, share a little bit of your sentiment. How are you feeling? I'm
feeling really good. I mean, I think that there was one technical glitch which you probably noticed. Oh,
there was slow connectivity? I
thought
that was easily overcomeable. Yeah.
Yeah. So what turned out what happened was so many people were downloading the app and trying to get the stock tokens that it brought down the network. So yeah. But it turned out everything worked. I thought the team did a nice job, and it was a lot of fun. You know, we put so much work into these products. The engineers are building them. They've been working for a long time that I think the least we can do is put put on a nice event so that we can communicate the value as nicely as possible. Mhmm. So I think it was a lot of fun. It was hopefully, the the crowd enjoyed it too.
You guys did a great job. Now I had the embargo. You guys gave us the embargo, so I knew when it was coming. Yeah. Except for the private tokenized companies of SpaceX and OpenAI, which I think kinda stole the show for what everyone was excited about. And that's really something that is something that Robinhood is really tapping into what feels like just the financials like I said of our times. You know, with so much VC capital out there, companies are able to stay private later and later. This is something that we talked about last time you're on the show. Was this something that because afte
Yeah. So the thought process was twofold. I don't know if you've caught the op ed that I wrote in the Washington post Yeah. Earlier this year. And really I've been thinking about tokenization for many, many years, and the benefits of tokenization is very, very clear that it's the future. Mhmm. And it's
very useful for Europeans and folks outside The US. And then when you communicate the value of the technology inside The US, it's sort of like talking about high speed rail when you
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