Decoder with Nilay Patel

How Robinhood is building the future of investing, with chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada

Mar 22, 2022

01:08:28

Episode guests

Aparna Chennapragada

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

You Never Get It Right The First Time

00:50

How Did You Jump From Google to Start Up World?

01:13

Robinhood - Multiple Companies in a Single App

01:18

Do You Think Facebook is Listening to You?

01:07

Introduction

5min

Robin Hood - What's the Story?

2min

How Did You Get Started at Google?

2min

Robinhood Markets

2min

Robin Hood

2min

Is Your Product Design Cross Functional?

2min

The Classic Decoter Question

3min

The Pig Is the Bacon and the Hen Is the Eggs

2min

Robin Hood

4min

10.

The Future of Cryptocurrency?

3min

11.

Payment for Orderflow - How Robin Hood Makes Money

2min

12.

Do You Think Facebook Is Listening to You?

2min

13.

Robin Hood

2min

14.

Hello Fresh Meal Kit Service

4min

15.

Robin Hood Cash Card

2min

16.

Cash Card

2min

17.

How Do You Compete in That Extraordinary Catermarket?

3min

18.

Using a Cash Card Plus a Spending Account

2min

19.

The Bridge Between Traditional and Emergent Financing

4min

20.

Undifferentiate Enthusiasm, Spicy

2min

21.

The Climate Impacts of Cryptocurrency Outweigh Any Benefits

2min

22.

Cryptocurrency Fundamentals - Is There a Future?

2min

23.

Is Robin Hood Part of Web Three?

3min

24.

Do You Think About Anfts in Robinhood?

2min

25.

Boost Your Taxes With Turbo Tax Live Experts

4min

26.

Using Robin Hood to Invest?

2min

27.

Is the Content Moderation Team Built to Scale?

2min

28.

The Verge Podcast - Decoter

2min

Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer at Robinhood, the popular stock and crypto trading app. And we have some news to discuss: Robinhood is launching a new cash card today that allows people to spend money directly out of their Robinhood account and set up various plans to automatically invest by rounding up purchase amounts to the nearest dollar and putting the difference in various investments.

Links:

How r/wallstreetbets gamed the stock of GameStop

The chicken and the pig

Google is reportedly removing Google Now Launcher from the Play Store

Robinhood Snacks

Robinhood buys Say Technologies for $140M to improve shareholder-company relations

Transcript:

https://www.theverge.com/e/22753372

Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.