{"id":37158,"date":"2025-07-16T07:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37158"},"modified":"2025-07-16T07:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:01:48","slug":"robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-defends-tokenizing-elon-musks-spacex-sam-altmans-openai-they-were-a-little-bit-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37158","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Defends Tokenizing Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, Sam Altman&#8217;s OpenAI: &#8216;They Were A Little Bit Upset\u2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Vlad Tenev<\/strong>, the CEO of <strong>Robinhood Markets Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/HOOD#NASDAQ\">HOOD<\/a>), is defending his company\u2019s bold move to give retail investors exposure to shares in high-profile private companies such as SpaceX and OpenAI, without seeking their permission. <\/p>\n<p>Check out the current price of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/HOOD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HOOD stock here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Speaking on the 20VC podcast on Tuesday, Tenev revealed that Robinhood&#8217;s new tokenization platform offers access to private market exposure for retail investors through structured instruments, effectively bypassing the need for companies to opt in.<\/p>\n<p>Tenev says, \u201cIt&#8217;s important for the tokenization mechanism to work without the opt-in of the companies that are being tokenized,\u201d and he believes that\u2019s the actual innovation that his company\u2019s been able to drive. <\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46425416\/jamie-dimon-admits-big-banks-are-behind-in-the-stablecoin-race\">Jamie Dimon Admits Big Banks Are Behind In The Stablecoin Race<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He notes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/large-cap\/25\/07\/46435581\/robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-defends-tokenizing-elon-musks-spacex-sam-altmans-openai-they-were-a-li\" alt=\"Robinhood\" ceo vlad tenev defends tokenizing elon musk spacex sam altman openai: were a little bit upset>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vlad Tenev, the CEO of Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD), is defending his company\u2019s bold move to give retail investors exposure to shares in high-profile private companies such as SpaceX and OpenAI, without seeking their permission. Check out the current price of\u00a0HOOD stock here. What Happened: Speaking on the 20VC podcast on Tuesday, Tenev revealed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-37158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}