Last year we had Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the podcast to talk to us about his company's plans to tokenize shares of private companies. The idea is that retail investors want to participate in hot names like OpenAI and SpaceX, and that tokenizing private equity would allow this to happen. Right after our episode though, a number of companies expressed frustration at the idea, saying that they were not voluntarily participating in the plan. So where do things stand now? And how is Robinhood thinking about how it will play in the red-hot prediction market space? On this episode, Vlad returns to talk about where things stand, and all of the company's new efforts to give retail traders even more instruments to use. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open 00:01:27 - Introduction 00:04:14 - Private Company Tokenization Backlash 00:06:35 - Robinhood Ventures Fund Introduction 00:08:45 - Investing vs Trading vs Gambling Definitions 00:11:38 - Tokenization Technical Structure 00:14:52 - Regulatory Strategy and Accredited Investor Rules 00:17:59 - Competing in Venture Capital Space 00:20:55 - Potential Conflicts of Interest for Robinhood 00:24:37 - Information Transparency in Private Markets 00:29:26 - Prediction Markets Partnership Strategy 00:33:55 - Betting on Roulette Spings 00:38:14 - Prediction Market Quality Factors 00:43:19 - Company Consent and Market Expansion 00:45:23 - Robinhood’s Heavy Metal Credit Cards 00:48:08 - Closing Thoughts Watch Bloomberg Vodcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0MS0Tqk_zQl1LVVTdWuH2Di Watch more Odd Lots episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0OJbRzA6nWybYiThLJd_ouz Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway analyze the weird patterns, the complex issues and the newest market crazes. Join the conversation every Monday and Thursday for interviews with the most interesting minds in finance, economics and markets. Join the conversation: discord.gg/oddlots Subscribe to Bloomberg Podcasts: https://bit.ly/BloombergPodcasts Check out more Odd Lots: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0MuA6M0zkZyy-99-qc87wKV Get the Odd Lots newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/oddlots And for all things Odd Lots, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots #Investing #Markets #Finance #Bloomberg #Podcast #OddLots Visit us: https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts For coverage on news, markets and more: http://www.bloomberg.com/video Visit our other YouTube channels: Bloomberg Television: https://www.youtube.com/@markets Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/bloomberg