Robinhood’s CEO Reveals His Daily Routine | Vlad Tenev

I've really been focused on teaching my kids math. I still think math is important, getting them to enjoy learning and be curious. Whenever I get time to spend with them, which is never as much as I would like, I try to talk to them about history, encourage them to do math, and see how they're doing in school. I think they have certain benefits that I didn't have when I was a kid. I mean, they could get access to the best tutors, they could talk to anyone they want. And my concern is always like, how do you get the benefits of that without the downsides? And the downsides of growing up as my kid is stuff can be easy for you, and maybe there's not the incentive that I had to be hungry, right? If I didn't work hard, my parents told me very directly, "We don't have the money to send you to college. Very likely you're going to have to get a scholarship, which means you're going to have to do all these things." And by the way, we were visa holders, so our status in this country was very, very uncertain. There was always the threat of, "Okay, if you don't do well, maybe the family will have to go back to Bulgaria, right?" And I think there's a little bit less of that, which is good in some ways, but also it can be hard to manufacture hunger if it's not really there, right? But I'm very proud of them, actually, because despite this, I think they're growing up to be great humans. Other goals: I think about my health. I'm getting a little older now, so I want to make sure that the body and the mind is working well, because I'd like to be—

I've done the full body MRI thing. I do blood testing. I just try to work out regularly. I've been getting into sauna and cold plunge and contrast therapy. I also have been trying really hard to have a routine before I go to sleep, because it's too easy for me to get into the thing of being on my phone or my iPad and just looking at the company Slack or reading docs till literally the last moment before—

Yeah, and my phone just whacks me in the head in bed. So, what I'm trying to do now is journal a little bit for 10 to 15 minutes and then read a physical print book for, you know, 15 to 20 minutes before I go to sleep so that things just get to wind down a little bit.