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]

gollark: `pastebin run 7HSiHybr` installs the latest test version.
gollark: PotatOS is too, if not MORE so thanks to its built-in\* and usable\*\* APIs\*\*\* and cryptography\*\*\*\*.
gollark: CraftOS is *fine* on "servers".
gollark: I generally like to ask "does your 'OS' actually do anything I can't do already, or at least something other stuff doesn't and which is novel and interesting".
gollark: What's wrong with orbital lasers?

References
  1. "Robinhood Founders Are Billionaires in Silicon Valley Minute". Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  2. "Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt - Co-Founder and Co-CEO @ Robinhood - Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  3. "Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  4. Cao, Sissi (September 10, 2018). "Robinhood CEO Opens Up About How He Convinced Tim Draper to Back His Crazy Idea". Observer. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. "Meet the 11 new tech billionaires that emerged in 2018". Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  6. Constine, Josh. "Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
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