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Why Robinhood Will Make History.

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I think Robin Hood is going to be so

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aggressive the next few years that I

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can't even imagine not having a big

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stake in this company because there is

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no other financial institution that I'm

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even aware of that even has a plan to

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attempt to do the things that I think

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Robin Hood is going to attempt to do. I

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think Robin Hood is going to be very

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much like Amazon. Remember during the

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last 15 years when Amazon would get into

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an industry, it's like, "Oh my gosh,

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they're going to take over that

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industry." Like Amazon's going to sell

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drugs now, like like you're going to get

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all your prescriptions from Amazon or

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Amazon's going to do this or that. It's

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like, whoa, what is Amazon not going to

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do? I think we're going to see a similar

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setup with Robin Hood over the next few

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years where they're going to plant

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themselves into different industry

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sectors until someone says, "Now, you've

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gone too far." Okay, you've gone too

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far. I don't know that anyone's going to

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say that the next few years. And that's

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okay. So, to play devil's advocate here,

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are you at all concerned about their

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current valuation compared to

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competitors? Schwab is the one that

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obviously comes to mind.

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>> I don't think you can compare them to

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Schwab because the growth trajectory and

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growth rates are totally different.

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>> Schwab used to be a, you know, a online

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broker that charged for trades and then

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Robin Hood came along and they had to

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offer free trades. I'm not investing in

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Schwab. I'm investing in Robin Hood. I'm

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just trying to ask the question, what is

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to prevent Schwab from saying, "Oh,

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well, we can do prediction markets. We

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can do tokenization. We can do these

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things. Once Robin Hood get gets in

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trouble or doesn't get in trouble,

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they've laid the groundwork. we we'll

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just do what they do.

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>> I think they ultimately will do a lot,

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not everything, but a lot of the things

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that Robin Hood is doing, but they're

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going to do it way later, way slower in

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much more of an antiquated way. And they

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are not going to capture the minds of

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the the the the customer set. Meaning

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that if you are a youngish investor, you

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do not want to be sitting with, you

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know, a a grandpa company like Schwab

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because it's not fun. It's not

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interesting. You're always going to be

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years behind in what you're able to do.

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Like if Robin Hood can somehow pull off

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real estate like we've been talking

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about, if Robin Hood can figure out a

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way to tokenize

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real estate and to actually be the

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company that helps facilitate those

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transactions as well as all other

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financial transactions in the world, uh

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that's a company that you're going to

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want to be with. Otherwise, you're

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waiting years and years for your

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financial institution to catch up. And

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quite honestly, the majority of young

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accounts are on Robin Hood.

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>> Schwab has just missed the boat on this

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younger generation by not having, you

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know, crypto and all these things just

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default in their iPhone app. You can't I

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mean, how do you come back from that?

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>> When we were younger, we all worked at

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huge incumbent companies. You spent a

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decade of your life at Yahoo. Is there

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was there any way even if you had people

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at Yahoo back in the day that saw

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something and said we need to jump on

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this quickly. It's like three years

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later before they actually do and then

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they do it in a worse way. There were

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people jumping on things all the time

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but actually pushing it to the finish

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line and launching it as a product be it

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just became such a it's like trying to

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move through molasses. You can't do it

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at a big company. And that's where I

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feel like companies like Google we we've

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been talking about Google and the AI

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race. I feel like Google is actually

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doing more than we would have expected

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considering how big and slow they are.

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But um yeah, I just don't see Schwab

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being able to, you know, put it into

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high gear and launch innovative products

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fast enough to get a younger generation

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that

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>> Well, I just I just think it's too late.

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I just think they've already, you know,

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they've already missed that customer. Do

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you know what I think is the biggest

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white flag

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on Robin Hood is they did something that

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I thought was stupid, really stupid, but

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it was a big white flag. The fact that

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they came out, you remember when they

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came out a few months ago and announced

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that they were going to deliver cash to

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you if you needed cash? That was a dumb

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thing. I don't really understand it. But

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the fact that someone said, "This would

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be cool. Let's let's float this. Let's

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just see if it works. And and and the

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company said, "What the hell? Let's get

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let's deliver cash to people." Could you

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even imagine? Could you even imagine a

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scenario where a Charles Schwab or any

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other financial institution in the world

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>> conversation happening within the walls

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of Charles Schwab or Goldman Sachs or

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you know who would that product ever

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make it to the light of day? Never. that

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one product, the fact that the CEO came

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out and said, "Hey, we're just going to

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start delivering cash to you," not

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knowing if it would be the dumbest thing

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in the world if anybody would use it or

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it would even still be a product in 6

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months. The fact that this company is

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willing to take a risk on something as

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stupid as that, now you know they're

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going to take the risk on other things

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that have potential to be multi-deion

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industries if they work. That's what I

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love. This is what America is all about.

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Taking huge risks to do great things.

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Things that are so wild and so creative

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that nobody anywhere in the world in

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their right mind would ever even

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consider doing anything like this. The

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spirit of American entrepreneurial like

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like business. Like this is it. This is

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what this company is all about. This is

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what Robin Hood is

Interactive Summary

The video discusses the potential growth of Robinhood, comparing its aggressive and innovative business strategy to Amazon's expansion. The speakers argue that traditional financial institutions like Schwab are too slow and bureaucratic to compete effectively for younger demographics, highlighting Robinhood's willingness to experiment with unconventional ideas—such as delivering cash—as a core competitive advantage.

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