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Before Robinhood became one of the most loved and most hated stock trading platforms in the U.S. it was just another tech startup launched by two mathematicians with an audacious idea: make stock trading mobile make it fun and make it free—with no commissions and no minimum balances. In 2013 Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt decided to pursue this idea full-time. They sidelined their first business—selling software that shaved milliseconds off high-speed trades—and began building an app aimed at 

Robinhood: Vlad Tenev

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