Vladimir Tenev


Vladimir Tenev is a Bulgarian American billionaire entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company.

Early life

Tenev was born in Bulgaria, and his parents migrated to the US when he was 5. His parents both worked for the World Bank, and he grew up in Washington, D.C and attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
He earned a degree in mathematics from Stanford University, where he met Baiju Bhatt. He studied for a mathematics PhD at UCLA, but dropped out to work with Bhatt.

Career

In 2010, Tenev and Bhatt started a high-frequency trading company called Celeris. By January 2011 they abandoned it to create Chronos Research, which sold low-latency software to other trading firms and banks.
In 2013, Tenev and Bhatt co-founded the trading platform Robinhood.
Following a funding round in May 2018 which increased Robinhood's valuation to $6 billion, Tenev and Bhatt became billionaires.

Awards and recognition

Tenev was included in a Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2013. He was invited to be the keynote speaker at UCLA's 2019 Math Commencement Ceremony.