Tagline: Robinhood has lined up $3.4 billion amid a spike in trading on Wall Street fueled by small investors driving up shares in GameStop and other stocks.

Question: Did Tenev's parents who work for the World Bank play a key role in getting this online brokerage firm off the ground?

Plus, his wife's company, Call9, shut down operations in 2019 due to expanding too fast and following an unsound business model. Click this link for details.

WALL STREET GURU: Who is Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev?
Debbie White | The Sun UK
2 Feb 2021

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Who is Robinhood co-CEO Vladimir Tenev?

Vlad Tenev, 35, is the co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood, a fast-growing online brokerage.

His wife is Celina Tenev, who went to Stanford University for four years at the School of Medicine, as a postdoctoral fellow.

According to Gulf News, her LinkedIn profile shows that she is the co-founder of a company providing on-demand emergency care, Call9...

...Tenev set up the Robinhood no-fee stock trading app with long-time pal, Baiju Bhatt.

But Fox Business writes that Tenev has "gone from a celebrated figure to a hated target" in the wake of the January 2021 Wall Street trading shambles.

Tenev was born in Varna, Bulgaria, and his World Bank parents migrated to the US when he was five.

Robinhood co-founders Tenev and Indian American Baiju Bhatt met at Stanford University, where they were roommates and classmates.

Tenev gained a mathematics degree at Stanford before continuing his education at UCLA, but dropped out of his PhD in mathematics to start a firm with Bhatt.