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American
Entrepreneur
Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt (born 1984/1985)Template:R is an American billionaire entrepreneurTemplate:RTemplate:R of Indian descent.[2][3][4] He is the co-founder, along with Vladimir Tenev, of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company.Template:RTemplate:R
Early life
Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt, the son of Indian immigrants, grew up in Poquoson, Virginia.[5] 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.[6]
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.[7]
Following a funding run in May 2018 which increased Robinhood's valuation to $6 billion, Bhatt and Tenev became billionaires.[1][8]
As of August 2021, Forbes has estimated his net worth at US$2.4 billion.[9]
Awards and recognition
Bhatt spoke at Disrupt SF 2018 on investing where he announced plans to launch an IPO for Robinhood in 2019.[10]
Personal life
Bhatt is married, has one child, and lives in Palo Alto, California.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robinhood Founders Are Billionaires in Silicon Valley Minute.
- ↑ 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Baiju Bhatt. moneyinc.com(2020). Retrieved 29 Jan 2021.
- ↑ Template:Cite tweet
- ↑ Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt. linkedin.com. Retrieved 29 Jan 2021.
- ↑ I'm Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood CEO, and This Is How I Work. lifehacker.com.
- ↑ Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg. www.bloomberg.com.
- ↑ Robinhood CEO Opens Up About How He Convinced Tim Draper to Back His Crazy Idea(September 10, 2018).
- ↑ Meet the 11 new tech billionaires that emerged in 2018.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Forbes profile: Baiju Bhatt. Forbes. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ↑ Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO.