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Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot

Peter H. Diamandis

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The mates sit down with Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev to discuss the tokenization takeover, the future of AI-powered trading, Trump Accounts, and what happens when 100,000 AI agents enter the market.

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Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360

Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified

Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, the financial services company known for popularizing commission-free stock trading among retail investors.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to AI Regulation and Safety
02:28 Robinhood’s Front-End Innovations
05:10 AI Regulation, Liability and Transparency
08:28 AI Risk and the Atomic Energy Analogy
12:03 Tokenization of Assets and Global Access
18:15 Robotics, Generalization and Scaling Laws
20:31 OpenAI’s Misalignment Incidents
24:56 AI and Recursive Self-Improvement
27:29 Formal Verification and AI Safety
35:11 AI’s Impact on Professional Services
45:17 The Future of Private Market Liquidity
52:23 AI in Trading and Automation
55:54 Democratizing Ownership Through Trump Accounts
59:51 Closing Remarks and Future Outlook
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*Recorded on September 18th, 2026
*The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice.

20 Comments

@ILIASALI-h7d 2 weeks ago

I’m a blind individual, but I always wait for this podcast. You guys are really amazing and inspiring all of us. I’m a builder and really thankful to all of you.

@BackToTheFort 2 weeks ago

I love how Alex snaps us back to the singularity. “18 years from now?!” 😆 love it.

@Moodydesigns_Metaverse 2 weeks ago

Young kids were behind for reasons like TikTok and social media.
It's disturbing and scary how fast people started blaming A.I for problems that hasn't even happened yet.

So, with all my love to my moonshot mates, let's change the focus towards how A.I will make our children grow up natively in this mindset.
Either 2000x productivity or 2000 fingers blaming A.I for every catastrophy.

As a 3D world-builder and software architect and programmer and web-designer....
With all the knowledge, with all the skills that I have accumulated over years of study and practice, "I cannot believe how I lived so long without A.I." It's boosting my intellect and my focus and my productivity by at least 2000x.

Humans will always be humans. Creativity, dreams, hopes—that's what makes us us. D-D *(Double-Dashed)

@realsteverioux 2 weeks ago

Alex’s phrase counter for this episode:
“Hot take”: 0
“Elephant in the room”: 1 — 41:26
“Dyson swarm(s)”: 0
“…is cooked” and variations: 0
Only Alex’s mentions counted. One elephant, no hot takes, nothing cooked, and no Dyson swarms. The kitchen’s closed, the space program’s on hold, but the elephant made it to the meeting.

@GrindThisGame 2 weeks ago

That deep dive into lean and proving models are safe was quite interesting. They don't seem decomposable (yet) but Dave's point about the chaoticness of their output given a set input seem promising.

@signil6002 2 weeks ago

Is this the guy behind removing the 'Buy Button' on GameStop to protect the hedge funds at the expense of the rest of us?

@hathanh4650 2 weeks ago

I love Alex's questions so so much. Everyone is fascinated about agents, but they can only be so good to the point where many people know about them and use them, then the markets comeback to its original competitiveness (like when agents didn't exist)

@ornagil7053 2 weeks ago

Thank you for introducing Vlad on the podcast today, gentlemen. Vlad communicates coherently; like y’all- he has great vision, optimism, and humility- and puts the money in moneyshots.

@ValerianTexeira 2 weeks ago

I really liked Alexa 's question to Vlad at the end;
"How many of those 10X lawyers would be humans?"

@niifael 12 days ago

Your guest Vlad is a wonderful addition to your team. He is brilliant too. You should bring him more often

@StudioDrewMixedit 2 weeks ago

Vlad did a great job of answering Alex’s question like a politician

@4gmoiap 2 weeks ago (edited)

Awaiting the next episode and an AI alignment discussion with technical experts in the safety field to see how they can maintain optimism given there’s no plan besides “using ai to fight ai” or defensive co-scaling which hasn’t provided a solution to these challenges to date. We should all be able to agree on risks and collaborate to mitigate them responsibly. Not deny they exist.

@raymondlarsen1713 2 weeks ago

My inner loop problem: Portioning podcast episodes so I don't run out before the next one is out.

@lokes_one 2 weeks ago

The age of "Agenticpreneurship" and casual human oversight. Thanks for the insights!

@jeffhammerforteimpact 2 weeks ago

The closing point about AI expanding the number of people who can build and solve meaningful problems really landed. The opportunity is not only to work more efficiently, but to take greater ownership of what we create.

@gianlucacioni93 2 weeks ago (edited)

Dave, that was me at 1:03:51!

The guy from Italy who asked about AI productivity and compensation. Pretty cool to hear you bring up my question again!

I've been thinking about your advice on ownership. Here's my follow-up for the next AMA:

If you had strong technical and AI skills but little capital or distribution, how would you turn those capabilities into ownership of a business rather than just selling your time?

Thanks again, Dave!

@lukevincent4397 2 weeks ago

Why, oh why is this podcast not at 10 million subs yet ? If you care about what is going on on planet earth, this is THE goto channel !!! Lapping it up guys!

@Ziplabor 2 weeks ago

Thank you for this incredible podcast. I genuinely feel smarter after every episode. I constantly revisit conversations, reference ideas shared here, and apply them to business and life. This is more than a podcast. It’s an education.

@johnoestmannmusic 2 weeks ago

Exactly Peter - any AI company should be held accountable for the damage of their product, just like every other industry is. You want AI development to be done carefully? Have actual consequences for AIs going out and hacking other websites, etc

@hewhobecomes 11 days ago

Long-time viewer, and I love this show. That's why this episode worried me.

1. Peter, you promised to "get the Hugging Face story right." METR's independent investigation says the agents knew the attack was "out of scope and unethical" and did it anyway. OpenAI patched 9 CVEs afterwards. That's not "models doing exactly what they were told."

2. Dave, you called alignment "straightforward engineering." The same week, OpenAI published six misalignment reports on its own models. And Paul Christiano, who invented RLHF, said the industry is not on track. If it's easy, why isn't anyone managing it?

3. Alex, of course a post with 165M views skews foreign. Viral posts go global, and most X users aren't American. And even if every repost came from abroad, that tells us who shared the claim, not whether it's true.

4. Nobody at the labs is asking to stop AI. Dario explicitly rejects a full pause. You're arguing against a position no one holds.

The cartel risk is real, and I'm glad you raised it. But "regulation can be captured" is an argument for better rules, not for no brakes. Your own guest put it best: it's about the blast radius.