My Two Cents: A Robinhood Failure Analysis (a sequel)

Michael Chow
Product Coalition
Published in
4 min readMar 3, 2020

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How a $7.6 billion behemoth unicorn managed to fail its 10MM+ users.

Back in August of 2018, I published a piece on Robinhood’s glorious and calculated growth story. As of late 2019, they announced their ten-millionth customer account opened. However, in my opinion, this chapter of growth is over. In this article, I discuss their hurdles and mistakes and illustrate why…

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I have experience in product at startups in b2b cloud, b2b2c health and wellness, b2c fintech, and b2c productivity.