Robinhood: From Hero to Sellout | Corporate Casket
Robinhood was meant to be an app that allowed the everyday consumer to have access to investing. Instead, the everyday user is a product, and its hedge funds that seem to benefit from Robinhood the most.
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Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide.
Robinhood, as its namesake implies, was seen as a tool that allowed the everyday individual to be able to invest in the stock market and have access to investing. However, after a massive controversy involving Gamestop, it soon became clear that the ‘everyday consumer’ was not Robinhood’s customer—but the product itself.
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Writers/Researchers/Helpers:
Ali Z-B
This episode was edited and mixed by:
G. Thomas Craig
Album cover art created by:
Betsy Primes
Intro Song Credits:
Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert
Outro Song Credits:
Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe
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