Retail investors

"A society without broad ownership is inherently very unstable": Robinhood CEO on AI

7 takeaways: 150,000 agentic trading accounts in months, a Robinhood chain for stock tokens, a fund for private AI labs and $1,000 Trump accounts for…

3 hrs ago • Scuttlebutt

iConnections CEO: we built a $500 version of Goldman's invite-only CEO conference

4 takeaways: why Gavin Baker and Antonio Gracias talked him into an Austin arena event, how Substack analysts now get IR teams' attention, and why short…

Oct 30 • Scuttlebutt

14 business lines earn $100M a year each as crypto hits a relative winter — Robinhood CEO

5 insights: why a new adjusted EPS measure turned an earnings miss into a beat, how the SpaceX IPO filled Robinhood with new customers, and why it calls…

Oct 29 • Scuttlebutt

CEOs want to meet X and Substack analysts more than Wall Street's, says iConnections CEO

11 insights: why hedge funds still can't advertise, how Gavin Baker and Antonio Gracias pitched an Austin arena event, and $500 tickets to Goldman-style…

Oct 29 • Scuttlebutt

Retail trades 20-25% of US stock volume, up from 8-10% before 2020, Roundhill CEO finds

9 arguments: how the DRAM memory ETF became the fastest fund to $25B, why "dumb money" is the wrong label, what meme stocks mean now, and the East-West…

Oct 20 • Scuttlebutt

The AI backlash may really be about inequality, says Robinhood's CEO

7 takeaways: how Robinhood Agents trade in a walled-off account, the case against AI labs hoarding their best models, and why tokenized stocks are "not…

Oct 14 • Scuttlebutt

Blue Owl co-CEO on retail credit funds: "You would have missed out on 600 basis points"

14 arguments: why Blue Owl's loan losses ran 12 basis points over 10 years, why outsiders set every mark, and why its data center bet rests on Microsoft…

Oct 9 • Scuttlebutt

600 managers in its network show private equity thawing, Hunter Point's CEO finds

10 takeaways: why retail redemptions in private credit need a few more quarters to clear, why higher rates help credit and hurt buyouts, and why someone…

Oct 8 • Scuttlebutt

150,000 users already let outside AI agents trade on Robinhood, says its CEO

7 takeaways: Robinhood's 16 launches including 24/7 stock trading, a "hedge fund in your pocket" for AI agents, and prediction markets on company…

Oct 1 • Scuttlebutt

"We don't do sports": Public's co-CEO on prediction markets that move portfolios

11 takeaways: why Public's trading agents run as fixed code that cannot hallucinate, how a rate-hike probability can trigger a Treasury sale, and why…

Oct 1 • Scuttlebutt

About 1% of Americans have private-market exposure, says Robinhood Ventures' head

15 takeaways: How a 1940 Act fund puts OpenAI and SpaceX in a brokerage account, the $200M vehicle built to buy 150 YC seed rounds a year, and a road…

Sep 22 • Scuttlebutt

"They definitely are happy to take a profit": Robinhood's CIO on retail traders

6 takeaways: what her customers sold to buy Oracle, how they traded crypto while it went nowhere, and what the managed-portfolio arm puts in a portfolio…

Sep 22 • Scuttlebutt

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