Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on customer trends, new products and retirement growth

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Tenev discusses customer trends, new product rollouts, and gains in Robinhood’s retirement accounts in a sit-down with Jim Cramer.

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Vlad Tenev sat down with Jim Cramer on CNBC's Mad Money and used the stage to highlight Robinhood's gains in retirement accounts and a string of new product rollouts. That matters because growth is real, about 49 percent year-over-year on average, while the company is still running deep losses, roughly a 125 percent average decline in net income, so this is still a build-and-monetize story. The interview is management's attempt to reframe Robinhood from a headline-grabbing trading app into a diversified platform that can extract longer customer lifecycles.