Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhood's 2021 IPO ' a period during which shares of the commission-free trading app plummeted by more than 90% after it abruptly restricted trading in some meme stocks ' the 12-year-old company was just declared Yahoo Finance's 'comeback stock' of the year. Asked about that accolade in recent days over Zoom, Tenev was beaming. 'When we were a young company and just got started, everyone was kind of rooting for us,' said Tenev, who oversees roughly 2,500 employees at Robinhood. 'Then at one point we started being treated as an incumbent ' the vibe became negative, [and] during COVID, it just became strange. [We] were growing like crazy, but people were unhappy, and we hit our low, and now it has been very positive.' It's what's around the corner that has Tenev truly excited, however. Like a lot of fintech entrepreneurs, he's feeling very enthusiastic about a second Trump...
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