Baiju Bhatt: Co-founder of Robinhood and Founder of Cowboy Space Corporation

Baiju Bhatt: Co-founder of Robinhood and Founder of Cowboy Space Corporation

Business Owner · Cryptocurrency & Fintech

San Francisco

Baiju Bhatt co-founded zero-commission trading platform Robinhood in 2013 with Vlad Tenev, led its product and design, and later founded Cowboy Space Corporation.

About Baiju Bhatt: Co-founder of Robinhood and Founder of Cowboy Space Corporation

Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt (born 1984 or 1985) is an Indian American billionaire entrepreneur, the founder of Cowboy Space Corporation and the co-founder and former co-chief executive officer of Robinhood, a US-based financial services company. Bhatt is the son of Gujarati immigrants from India and grew up in Poquoson, Virginia; his father worked at NASA's Langley Research Center, sparking an interest in space in his youth. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Stanford, where he also completed a master's degree in mathematics in 2008, and met Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev there. In 2013 he co-founded the zero-commission stock trading platform Robinhood with Tenev. In 2015 Robinhood launched a mobile app, with Bhatt focused on product and design; he stressed user research, and he and team members would approach students on Stanford's campus for feedback on new features, which contributed to an Apple Design award that same year. Sources: English Wikipedia (Baiju Bhatt, accessed September 2026).

Basic Information

Co-founder and former co-CEO, Robinhood; founder, Cowboy Space Corporation

Company Details

Robinhood Markets / Cowboy Space Corporation

Fintech, Space Technology