House GameStop Hearing Delves Into Robinhood, Reddit And WallStreetBets Deadline 2/19/2021
Vlad Tenev, founder of retail stock trading app Robinhood, told a House Committee on Thursday that “the financial system should be open to everyone,” including frenzied buyers of GameStop and AMC Entertainment whipped up by a Reddit chatroom.
He apologized profusely that a funding rule had forced the app to subsequently block share purchases – a temporary restriction that was a focus of the five-hour hearing today. The stocks fell and some Robinhood users lost their shirts.
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Tenev was testifying before the House Financial Services Committee alongside the CEO of a hedge fund that made a killing on GameStop (Kenneth Griffin, Citadel LLC) and another that lost big in a short squeeze (Gabriel Plotkin, Melvin Capital). Individual investor Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty from his YouTube videos and Reddit posts, bought GameStop and touted it on Reddit’s colorful W
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