Robinhood's CEO Vladimir Tenev says his biggest strength and weakness is "pathological steadiness."
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00:00I think one of my weaknesses, you know, I haven't had a job interview in a while,
00:07but sometimes I think through what I would answer these questions that I ask people,
00:13and I've heard it described, my weakness, which I think can also be a strength.
00:18Our strengths are our weaknesses.
00:20I have this pathological steadiness.
00:23So I might not emote very much.
00:25I don't get very excited about things.
00:28I don't get terribly distraught about things,
00:31which can really be off-putting to people in some ways,
00:36but I think can be a strength, because when you're going through a crisis,
00:40it probably started out for me being an immigrant,
00:44and my parents came to this country when I was very young,
00:48and I was a latchkey child, like some millennials.
00:52Now people can't imagine having their kids go home from the bus stop,
00:57half a mile, and being home alone, but both my parents worked.
01:00We had no option.
01:02And so, I don't know, my childhood was, like, not easy,
01:07and there was this constant threat of, like,
01:09if we don't make it in this country, we'll have to go back to Bulgaria,
01:13where there's hyperinflation, and so it was just, like, constant struggle.
01:18So I think when GameStop happened, I was kind of prepared for that.