While most were following the closure of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns during the 2008 financial crisis, there was another important change occurring: the rise of algorithmic trading. Due to the inefficiency and excess of humans coordinating trades, computers began processing about 95% of the trading activity by financial institutions. Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt were working on building such automation software for banks, but wondered if there was a way to leverage this technology for the masses, not just the wealthy. This was the inspiration for launching their startup Robinhood, which utilizes automation to reduce the human labor needed…
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