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Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

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Why This Matters

Robinhood's evolution from a simple stock-trading app into a full-stack financial platform reflects a broader industry trend where investing, banking, credit, crypto, and AI are converging into a single consumer experience. This matters because it signals how fintech companies are competing not just on price or features, but on becoming the primary hub for a customer's entire financial life, raising the stakes for trust and scale.

Key Takeaways

The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life.

Investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered trading are converging. At the same time, consumers expect financial products to be as intuitive and responsive as the best technology products they use every day — without compromising the trust they expect when their money is involved.

Few companies illustrate that shift as clearly as Robinhood. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Abhishek Fatehpuria, Vice President of Product Management for Brokerage at Robinhood, joins the Smart Money Stage with “Winning the Modern Financial Consumer.” He’ll explore how technology and changing expectations are reshaping financial services, and what it takes to build trusted products at massive scale.

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Join the conversation with Abhishek Fatehpuria on October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, where 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech decision-makers will come together to examine and connect with the companies, technologies, and business models shaping what comes next.

Register now to save up to $200 before prices go up on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Save up to 30% on group passes of four or more.

From trading app to financial platform

Robinhood, which became synonymous with commission-free stock trading, now spans a much wider financial landscape. Its offerings include investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, and prediction markets, while its recent launches have pushed further into AI, private markets, and international expansion.

The scale is significant. Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in total platform assets at the end of August 2026.

And customers are increasingly using products outside Robinhood’s original trading proposition. In its second-quarter results, the company said Robinhood Banking had attracted more than $3 billion in deposits, its credit card business had surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue, and prediction markets had traded more than 3.5 billion contracts through that point.

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