Vladimir Tenev

Vladimir Tenev (born 1986/1987) (Bulgarian: Владимир Тенев) is a Bulgarian American billionaire entrepreneur, and the co-founder (with Baiju Bhatt) of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company.

Vladimir Tenev
Vladimir Tenev speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016
Born1986/1987 (age 33–34)[1]
Bulgaria
NationalityAmerican, Bulgarian
EducationStanford University
UCLA (dropped out)
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forCo-founder, Robinhood
Home townWashington, D.C., US

Early life

Tenev was born in Bulgaria, and his parents migrated to the US when he was 5.[2] His parents both worked for the World Bank,[3] and he grew up in Washington, D.C[4] and attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.[5]

He earned a degree in mathematics from Stanford University, where he met Baiju Bhatt.[1] He studied for a mathematics PhD at UCLA, but dropped out to work with Bhatt.[3][6]

Career

In 2010, Tenev and Bhatt started a high-frequency trading company called Celeris. By January 2011 they abandoned it to create Chronos Research, which sold low-latency software to other trading firms and banks.[7]

In 2013, Tenev and Bhatt co-founded the trading platform Robinhood.[1]

Following a funding round in May 2018 which increased Robinhood's valuation to $6 billion, Tenev and Bhatt became billionaires.[1][8]

Awards and recognition

Tenev was included in a Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2013.[9] He was invited to be the keynote speaker at UCLA's 2019 Math Commencement Ceremony.[10]

gollark: I could probably get around that with enough work.
gollark: Either way, the real-world credit card system... honestly seems woefully insecure and the only reason it works most of the time is the law and people being somewhat trustworthy.
gollark: I think you either need physical presence of the card or some numbers on it.
gollark: I would be worried about the networking between the payment terminals and central server, too - if it's not secured properly people could intercept it and/or run attacks on it.
gollark: You *don't* trust the payment terminals, because people can go around editing the code on them to do basically whatever, and they have to read the card and contact the bank server.

References
  1. "Robinhood Founders Are Billionaires in Silicon Valley Minute". Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  2. "The founders of Robinhood, a no-fee stock-trading app, were initially rejected by 75 venture capitalists — now their startup is worth $1.3 billion". Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  3. "Vlad Tenev, 28". Forbes. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  4. Team, Glogster. "Vlad Tenev: biographies, en, leisure, personal, science, scientific, software, tenev, trading, vlad - Glogster EDU - Interactive multimedia posters". edu.glogster.com. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  5. Thomas Jefferson HS. "Thomas Jefferson HS". Twitter.
  6. Ongchoco, David (12 August 2015). "Startup Insider: The Story Behind Stock Trading App Robinhood and Its One Million-Person Waitlist". Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  7. "Win the Stock Market with Crowd Sourced Advice from New App Robinhood".
  8. "Meet the 11 new tech billionaires that emerged in 2018". Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  9. Vardi, Nathan (January 4, 2016). "30 Under 30 Finance: The Top Young Traders, Bankers And Dealmakers". Forbes. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  10. "2019 Math Commencement Keynote Speaker: Vladimir Tenev". UCLA. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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