The Disgrace Of Robinhood
ValueWalk | Aug 22, 2021 01:40AM ET
Trading app Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) before , I think this company is an absolute disgrace and agree wholeheartedly with Charlie Munger, who said it's "beneath contempt."
Robinhood belongs in the Hall of Shame alongside e-cigarette company Juul and Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma for pushing products that hurt people.
Robinhood's entire business model depends on further turning our markets into, as Munger put it, "gambling parlors"—encouraging people to speculate madly by day-trading options and worthless garbage that I've nicknamed Doggycoin (DOGE/USD) and GameStink (GME).
Robinhood's earnings report only reinforced my view. To understand what a "gambling parlor" the app is, look no further than this chart:
Ripping your customers' faces off can, sadly, be a very good business—just look at most multilevel marketers like Herbalife Nutrition (NYSE:HLF) and predatory lenders like World Acceptance (NASDAQ:WRLD). But nevertheless, I'd avoid Robinhood's stock...
h2 The Biggest Digital Media Company In America/h2I was so happy to read this story in the New York Times about my old friend and business school classmate, Ric Elias: You've Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America . What an incredible story! Excerpt:
"Lindsey Turrentine first heard of Red Ventures last fall, when it bought the venerable tech news site CNET, where she is the senior vice president in charge of content. She sat down at her kitchen table in Berkeley, Calif., and frantically started Googling to find out what it was.
"Her experience wasn't uncommon. People working at the tourism guide Lonely Planet, the travel site The Points Guy and the health and medical information site Healthline were similarly blindsided in recent years, when Red Ventures bought up special interest publications in a multibillion-dollar shopping spree."
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