Baiju Bhatt


Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, along with Vladimir Tenev, of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company.

Early life

Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt, the son of Indian immigrants, earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford University where he also completed a master's degree in mathematics in 2008. He and Tenev met during Bhatt's time at Stanford.

Career

In 2013, Bhatt co-founded the trading platform Robinhood with Tenev. The idea stemmed from witnessing the issues in the financial industry during the 2011 protests of Occupy Wall Street.
Following a funding run in May 2018 which increased Robinhood's valuation to $6 billion, Bhatt and Tenev became billionaires.

Awards and recognition

Bhatt spoke at Disrupt SF 2018 on investing where he announced plans to launch an IPO for Robinhood in 2019.