Baiju Bhatt

Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt (born 1984/1985) is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, along with Vladimir Tenev, of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company.

Baiju Bhatt
Bhatt in 2018
Born
Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt

1984/1985 (age 35–36)[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Occupationentrepreneur
Known forCo-founder, Robinhood

Early life

Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt, the son of Indian immigrants, earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University where he also completed a master's degree in mathematics in 2008. He and Tenev met during Bhatt's time at Stanford.[1][2][3]

Career

In 2013, Bhatt co-founded the trading platform Robinhood with Tenev.[1] The idea stemmed from witnessing the issues in the financial industry during the 2011 protests of Occupy Wall Street.[4]

Following a funding run in May 2018 which increased Robinhood's valuation to $6 billion, Bhatt and Tenev became billionaires.[1][5]

Awards and recognition

Bhatt spoke at Disrupt SF 2018 on investing where he announced plans to launch an IPO for Robinhood in 2019.[6]

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