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| birth_name = Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt<br />
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| nationality = American<br />
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| alma_mater = [[Stanford University]]<br />
| occupation = Entrepreneur<br />
| known for = Co-founder, [[Robinhood (company)|Robinhood]]<br />
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'''Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt''' (born 1984/1985){{r|bloomberg.com}} is an American [[billionaire]] entrepreneur{{r|bloomberg.com}}{{r|vixb}} of [[Indian Americans|Indian]] descent.<ref name="vixb">{{Cite web |title=20 Things You Didn’t Know About Baiju Bhatt |access-date=29 Jan 2021 |date=2020 |archive-date=29 Jan 2021 |url=https://moneyinc.com/baiju-bhatt/ |archive-url=https://archive.is/qgU3A |website=moneyinc.com |last1=Vix |first1=Bill}}</ref><ref name="bgm">{{Cite tweet |link=https://twitter.com/bgmahesh/status/946737510427738112 |author=BG Mahesh |user=bgmahesh |number=946737510427738112 |date=29 Dec 2017 |title=Wasn't aware the co-founder of @robinhoodapp, the most popular stock trading app in the US, @bprafulkumar was of Indian origin #Gujarat. They have scaled very well, kudos |archive-url=https://archive.is/AxhTN |archive-date=29 Jan 2021}}</ref><ref name="linkedin">{{Cite web |title=Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/bprafulkumar/ |archive-url=https://archive.is/sBrc8 |archive-date=29 Jan 2021 |access-date=29 Jan 2021 |website=linkedin.com}}</ref> He is the co-founder, along with [[Vladimir Tenev]], of [[Robinhood (company)|Robinhood]], a US-based financial services company.{{r|bloomberg.com}}{{r|vixb}}<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt, the son of Indian immigrants, grew up in [[Poquoson, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lifehacker.com/im-baiju-bhatt-robinhood-ceo-and-this-is-how-i-work-1797407595|title=I'm Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood CEO, and This Is How I Work|website=lifehacker.com|accessdate=29 January 2021}}</ref> He 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=215613230&privcapId=215527752&previousCapId=215527752&previousTitle=Chronos+Research,+LLC|title=Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|accessdate=23 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
In 2013, Bhatt co-founded the trading platform Robinhood with Tenev.<ref name="bloomberg.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-11/robinhood-founders-turn-billionaires-in-a-silicon-valley-minute|title=Robinhood Founders Are Billionaires in Silicon Valley Minute|publisher=|accessdate=23 July 2018}}</ref> The idea stemmed from witnessing the issues in the financial industry during the 2011 protests of [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cao |first1=Sissi |title=Robinhood CEO Opens Up About How He Convinced Tim Draper to Back His Crazy Idea |url=https://observer.com/2018/09/robinhood-ceo-tells-how-he-convinced-tim-draper-back-idea/ |accessdate=11 January 2019 |publisher=Observer |date=September 10, 2018}}</ref><br />
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Following a funding run in May 2018 which increased Robinhood's valuation to $6 billion, Bhatt and Tenev became billionaires.<ref name="bloomberg.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.businessinsider.com/new-tech-billionaires-2018-7?r=US&IR=T/#sachin-bansal-no-relation-to-binny-is-also-a-co-founder-of-flipkart-4|title=Meet the 11 new tech billionaires that emerged in 2018|publisher=|accessdate=23 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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As of August 2021, ''[[Forbes]]'' has estimated his net worth at US$2.4 billion.<ref name="Forbes profile">{{cite web |title=Forbes profile: Baiju Bhatt |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/baiju-bhatt/ |website=Forbes |access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref><br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
Bhatt spoke at [[TechCrunch#TechCrunch_Disrupt|Disrupt SF 2018]] on investing where he announced plans to launch an IPO for Robinhood in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Constine |first1=Josh |title=Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/06/robinhood-ipo/ |accessdate=11 January 2019 |publisher=TechCrunch}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Bhatt is married, has one child, and lives in [[Palo Alto]], California.<ref name="Forbes profile"/><br />
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