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Benchmark’s Bill Gurley On GameStop Frenzy, Robinhood’s Model And Direct Listing

Feb.05 — Benchmark Capital general partner Bill Gurley shares perspective on retail investors, Robinhood’s business model and the recent IPO pops of technology companies. He also discusses what the future of Amazon.com Inc may look like without Jeff Bezos as CEO. Gurley speaks with Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”

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Feb.05 — Benchmark Capital general partner Bill Gurley shares perspective on retail investors, Robinhood’s business model and the recent IPO pops of technology companies. He also discusses what the future of Amazon.com Inc may look like without Jeff Bezos as CEO. Gurley speaks with Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”

4 Comments

  1. Nia Sayamuongbo

    February 6, 2021 at 1:08 am

    I 💕 the video…so Amazing 🎮
    Game stop

  2. Big Donut

    February 6, 2021 at 10:52 am

    lol, Let’s kill Robinhood, the only option of trading for poor people.

    • abe presume

      February 6, 2021 at 8:30 pm

      Guess the other brokers offering $0 trades are sour milk?! Stfu

  3. Aloysius Fekete

    February 6, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    Wait, isn’t Silicon Valley largely predicated on just this business model: give the consumer access to a platform for free and monetize their activity on the platform with some third party? Look at Google, Facebook, Twitter. Isn’t Robin Hood’s business model basically the same? And isn’t the risk in each instance that a potential conflict of interest threatens to pervert the benefit it purports to provide the end consumer? The only difference it seems to me is that finance is much more attuned to agency issues. I’m not trying to defend Robin Hood’s actions. I think there is a lot to criticise at the operational/implementation level. But, as far as the business model is concerned – hey – we all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

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