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Vladimir Tenev

Founder and Executive

Vladimir Tenev, born on 13 February 1987 in Varna, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian-American entrepreneur best known as co-founder, chairman and chief executive of the financial technology company Robinhood. He moved to the United States at the age of five, where his parents worked for the World Bank, and studied mathematics at Stanford and UCLA, earning a master's degree in 2008 and dropping a planned doctorate to work with Baiju Bhatt, whom he had met at Stanford. In 2010 the two started a high-frequency trading software company called Celeris, then Chronos Research, which sold low-latency software to trading firms and banks. In 2013 they co-founded Robinhood, built around commission-free trading. Tenev became its sole chief executive in November 2020 after sharing the co-CEO title with Bhatt, and the company went public in 2021. In 2023 he co-founded the artificial intelligence startup Harmonic, where he is executive chairman.

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Entrepreneurship, Practice Disciplines
Source Vlad Tenev (Wikipedia)
Financial Technology Industry, Industries
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Companies Founded

Robinhood Markets, Companies and Brands
Source Robinhood (Wikipedia)

Companies Led

Robinhood Markets, Companies and Brands
Source Robinhood (Wikipedia)

Founded By

Robinhood Markets, Companies and Brands
Source Vlad Tenev (Wikipedia)

Led By

Robinhood Markets, Companies and Brands
Source Vlad Tenev (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

Bulgaria

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is a Bulgarian-American entrepreneur
United States

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is a Bulgarian-American entrepreneur
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Vlad Tenev (Wikipedia)
  • Lead [associated-with]
    is a Bulgarian-American entrepreneur
  • Founded By: Robinhood Markets, Career, Robinhood
    In 2013, Tenev and Bhatt co-founded the trading platform Robinhood
  • Led By: Robinhood Markets, Career, Robinhood [led-by]
    In November 2020, Tenev became the sole CEO of Robinhood
  • Associated With: Financial Technology Industry, Lead
    co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Robinhood, a US-based financial technology services company
  • In Group: Company Founders and Co-founders, Lead section
    is most notably the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Robinhood, a US-based financial technology services company
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Robinhood (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Companies Founded: Robinhood Markets, History, founding
    Robinhood was founded in April 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt
  • Companies Led: Robinhood Markets, History, leadership
    when Tenev became the sole CEO
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