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Does anyone else think that in an awful way this story is incredible advertising for Robinhood? How many young people are going to read this story and think the
by reidjs 6y ago
Does anyone else think that in an awful way this story is incredible advertising for Robinhood? How many young people are going to read this story and think they can trade 730K on margin? If you’re already broke there isn’t much downside, but relatively unlimited upside.
- fullshark 6y agoI wonder if Robinhood lost any users really after their outages. I know they have a ton more cause of so many retail investors flooding the market but what really was the consequence of that even for them?
- kumarm 6y agoIn early days of twitter, they used to go down almost everyday and showed failed whale. Every day media covered news that twitter went down again and thus creating more publicity resulting in more users.
- stu2b50 6y agoNope, they gained a huge amount of users after the outage actually. It's why they managed to have an upround of funding in the middle of the pandemic. I guess some people were scared off, but way more people saw the news and had a "oh, so Robinhood exists, cool!" moment.