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Robinhood plans to cut its headcount by ~23% over “additional deterioration of the macro environment”, after laying off ~9% of full-time employees in April 2022

The job cuts mark the second round of layoffs for the online brokerage, which exploded in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic Source: Under the Hood .

Wall Street Journal Caitlin McCabe

Discussion

  • @ronlieber Ron Lieber on x
    Still surprised that nobody big has bought Robinhood to take their customers and hire their designers. What am I missing? Still too expensive? Is there something... wrong with the customer base? https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
    Robinhoodies? Come on man. https://twitter.com/...
  • @menlobear Adam Taggart on x
    Today's #layoffs casualty: Robinhood Lays Off 23% of Staff This is its 2nd round of job cuts this year. Together, the two rounds have cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on x
    VLAD TENEV: “In this new environment, we are operating with more staffing than appropriate. As CEO, I approved and took responsibility for our ambitious staffing trajectory—this is on me.” $HOOD ⁦@WSJ⁩ https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @michelezanini Michele Zanini on x
    Getting fired via Slack is the #futureofwork we've all been dreaming of https://blog.robinhood.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @seldo Laurie Voss on x
    Bored Markets Hypothesis confirmed https://twitter.com/...
  • @bullandbaird Michael Antonelli on x
    $HOOD is laying off close to a quarter of its company. Good lord.
  • @ahcastor Amy Castor on x
    The pandemic darling is seeing its fortunes unwind. Robinhood is laying off nearly a quarter of its staff https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
    The structural problem for Robinhood is that the product actually isn't good for its customers. Making it easy for people to gamble on stocks & crypto is actually worse than a Vegas casino since at least those have star studded shows, free drinks and nice restaurants.
  • @steveclapham @steveclapham on x
    Robinhood Markets is slashing about 23% of its staff Tenev said the company grew its head count to nearly 3,900 in Q1 22 from roughly 700 at end 2019. Hardly surprising. Stock down 50% this year. I would have guessed more https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
    It's a tough time to run a casino... https://twitter.com/...
  • @seldo Laurie Voss on x
    I'm sure it's just a freak coincidence that discovering the money laundering is illegal and laying off a quarter of their staff happened on the same day. https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
    Robinhood is laying off 23% of its staff after laying off 9% in April. Revenue of $318M is down -44% from $565M last year. I've mentioned before that Robinhood, Coinbase & Draftkings are all in the same business yet only one of them realized that. https://www.cnbc.com/...
  • @chriskeall Chris Keall on x
    Ouch. Big collapse in retail investor activity - at least on the trendiest platform. Live by the Reddit, die by the Reddit https://twitter.com/...
  • @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
    Looks like me and attention seeking buffoon ⁦@profgalloway⁩ called this right on ⁦@PivotPod⁩, even though the ha-ha boys touted it: Robinhood cutting about 23% of jobs, releases second quarter earnings https://www.cnbc.com/...