In brief
- Robinhood plans to offer “thousands” of private companies as tokenized stocks.
- OpenAI denounced the platform for offering its stock despite being a private company.
- Vladimir Tenev, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, said that tons of private companies have reached out to be added as a tokenized stock.
Vladimir Tenev, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, has outlined the platform’s intent to list “thousands” of private companies as tokenized stocks. The statement follows controversy regarding its tokenized stocks for private firms OpenAI and SpaceX. The ChatGPT creator went so far as to publicly denounce the offering.
Private companies are not publicly traded on stock exchanges. The firms typically attract investment from founders, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and also sometimes angel investors, and employees. As a result, investment in these companies is closed off from the public.
Robinhood’s tokenized stock offering, available only in the EU, seeks to solve that pain point by giving traders access to the stocks via
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Author: Ryan Gladwin
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