“If you do the hard work up front… you can work for really thin margins… as it scales… incremental margins are really high… Robinhood's incremental margins, it's about 75%.”

Run the Numbers · Robinhood's CFO on Refounding & the Art of Capital Allocation | Shiv Verma

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structured the business with 85-90% fixed costs and minimal variable costs

75% incremental margin

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