Quotes from Baiju Bhatt

We didn't build Robinhood to make the rich people richer. The mission is to help the everyman, the rest of us.

The best thing to do with our markets is to have more people participate.

I think its very easy to try to launch things too quickly and do things too quickly and not pay attention to the details along the way.

To do your best work, you have to enjoy what you do and the people around you.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, they had this resiliency.

In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we're holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don't stay really genuine to that, it's very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.

There's just something very, very satisfying feeling like I have my investments right there in my pocket.

Financial products are the last thing in the world that should be confusing.

Robinhood exists so that everyone can share in the stock market's wealth creation.

Investing is the biggest driver of wealth in our country.

Our move to offer free options trading is rooted in the belief that sophisticated investment tools don't need to be complex or reserved for the wealthy.

Free is a difficult model to get to work right. But it's better for consumers.

Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.

I'm by far my most creative and my most productive early in the day.

While we should be moving very quickly and building great products for our consumers, it should never come at the expense of security, uptime, things like that.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

It's really more convenient for people to have one app on their phone that is the go-to for that activity. We see an opportunity as we add more services and features to Robinhood to really be on that one app for all customers' finances.

We are legitimate players in the financial services industry.

We want to say in unambiguous terms that we're a different type of financial services company.

The financial services industry is failing the millennial generation.

Our financial system, for as advanced a country that we are, could be so much better.

Pundits will be pundits. We don't think too much of the punditry.

People have been like 'well you need millions of dollars to buy and sell stocks.' That sort of idea was thrown out of the window with online brokerages like E-trade and Fidelity, and today, we think that you don't even need thousands of dollars to trade stocks.

I have to be very diligent about making sure I'm taking care of my body and my mind, because if I'm not, the quality of my decision making goes down.