Robinhood CEO's biggest strength and weakness is "pathological steadiness"

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.