# How Robinhood App Crashed on the best day in Wall Street history | Sidebean

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Published: 2026-07-11T04:42:00+00:00
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How Robinhood App Crashed on the best day in Wall Street history ► Get your math for finances right with a Brilliant course! Go to https://brilliant.org/slidebean and sign up for free. And also, the first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. Historically, the stock market seemed impossible to get into, especially if you were a younger, inexperienced investor. But, in 2013, an app came to make trading more accessible. Robinhood App had arrived. Its recipe became a magnet for rookie investors, with hundreds of thousands flocking to use it. Some called the software disrupting, while others called it democratizing. One thing was clear: Robinhood shook the trading world. But recent times have not been kind. Tragedies, outages, and a chaotic financial world have put the company to the test. Let's talk about Robinhood, in this episode of Company Forensics. #robinhood #startups #Slidebean 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Robinhood: The origins 2:42 - Robinhood: Establishment and Growth 3:32 - Robinhood: Shaking Tradition and Intriguing Questions 5:52 - Robinhood: Rocky Roads 9:14 - Robinhood: Recent Developments --- Read the article: https://slidebean.com/blog/startups-robinhood?utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=ba-content Follow Caya: https://twitter.com/cayahere and https://instagram.com/caya_here - Let us improve your pitch deck ► https://slidebean.com/pitch-deck-design?utm_source=youtube.com&utm_medium=video&utm_campai gn=video-content - Get the Slidebean Agency team to design your slides ► https://slidebean.com/agency - Join our Discord ► https://slidebean.com/youtube#discord - Book office hours with Caya ► https://slidebean.com/caya Turn on notifications for the podcast & rate it a 5-star for new episod…

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