HOOD Chief ExecutiveWhat Vlad Tenev says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.
Chief Executive Officer, President & Chairman · Robinhood Markets Inc.
Co-founded Robinhood in 2013 with Baiju Bhatt to democratize finance for all. Served as Co-CEO and Co-President from 2013 to November 2020, then became sole CEO. Born in Bulgaria, holds a degree in mathematics from Stanford University. Leads the company's strategic vision and product development.
Tenev owns about 5% of Robinhood Markets Inc., worth $5.90B at the last close.
Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). Every input links to a filing or to the career file; the bands are ours.
Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for the filing.
| Security | Held via | Shares |
|---|---|---|
| Class B Common Stock | Direct | 48,294,572 |
| Class A Common Stock | Living Trust | 6,907 |
| Reported as of 2026-07-06 | 48,301,479 | |
| Date | Type | What happened | Shares | Price | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2026 | Convert | Conversion of a derivative · Class A Common Stock | +375,000 | — | — | |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Sale | Open-market sale across 7 lots, $112.22–$118.14 · Class A Common Stock | −375,000 | $116.17 avg | $43.6M | under a 10b5-1 plan |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Convert | Conversion of a derivative · Class B Common Stock | −375,000 | — | — | |
| Apr 6, 2026 | Convert | Conversion of a derivative · Class A Common Stock | +375,000 | — | — | |
| Apr 6, 2026 | Sale | Open-market sale across 2 lots, $69.53–$70.12 · Class A Common Stock | −375,000 | $69.83 avg | $26.2M | under a 10b5-1 plan |
| Apr 6, 2026 | Convert | Conversion of a derivative · Class B Common Stock | −375,000 | — | — | |
| Jan 5, 2026 | Convert | Conversion of a derivative · Class A Common Stock | +375,000 | — | — | |
| Jan 5, 2026 | Sale | Open-market sale across 6 lots, $118.38–$123.11 · Class A Common Stock | −375,000 | $121.63 avg | $45.6M | under a 10b5-1 plan |
| Jan 5, 2026 | Convert | Conversion of a derivative · Class B Common Stock | −375,000 | — | — | |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Convert | Conversion of a derivative · Class A Common Stock | +87,770 | — | — |
| Company | Role | Reported | Beneficial | % of class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOOD Robinhood Markets, Inc. This page | Chief Executive Officer | 48M 2026-07-06 |
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Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.
98 filings under CIK 0001871006 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗
10 recorded appearances
Tenev covers the launch of Trump Accounts, agentic trading, and prediction markets, and argues tokenization will eventually take over the entire financial system rather than remaining a crypto-adjacent niche.
Watch or read →Second half of a wide-ranging, non-financial conversation with Rick Rubin covering Tenev's thinking on mathematics, AI research and creative process rather than Robinhood product news.
Watch or read →Tenev talks with Rick Rubin about his immigrant upbringing, the mathematics background behind Robinhood, and how he thinks about building products for people who were locked out of markets.
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On stage in New York with the WSJ Leadership Institute's Ben Ashwell, Tenev lays out Robinhood's path from brokerage to full-stack financial app, covering tokenized private-company shares, prediction markets and retirement products.
Watch or read →Tenev recounts the path to a $68B market cap, including the post-2021 cost discipline and the product expansion into crypto, retirement and prediction markets.
Watch or read →Tenev claims Gen Z is contributing to retirement accounts earlier than prior cohorts, and uses that to justify Robinhood's push into IRAs and matched retirement products alongside crypto and tokenization.
Watch or read →Tenev details the plan to tokenize shares of private companies and explains how Robinhood is positioning in prediction markets, including the regulatory route it is taking.
Watch or read →Tenev walks through the GameStop liquidity crisis in detail and says it was not his hardest moment; he describes cutting Robinhood from a bloated hyper-growth org to a leaner one and folding AI into how the company operates.
Watch or read →Tenev describes leading through crises that he says would break most CEOs, and what wartime decision-making looked like inside Robinhood when the company was under simultaneous regulatory, media and liquidity pressure.
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Live from Summit Skywalker Ranch, Tenev and the product team unveil Robinhood Cortex and the company's prediction-markets products, positioning AI-assisted research and event contracts as the next core surface of the app.
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