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By launching Robinhood's commission-free trading platform in 2013, Tenev pressured Charles Schwab, E*Trade, and TD Ameritrade to eliminate trading fees entirely — reshaping retail investing for 20 million users and an entire industry.
Vlad Tenev co-founded Robinhood in 2013 with the mission of opening stock market investing to everyone by eliminating trading commissions.
The platform grew to over 20 million users and forced Charles Schwab, E*Trade, and TD Ameritrade to drop commissions as well. Robinhood went public in 2021 and has expanded into cryptocurrency, retirement accounts, and credit cards. Born in Bulgaria, Tenev studied mathematics and physics at Stanford.
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