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Hey Matt, will Robinhood get fined? Will they get to keep the emails (probably around 1 million) they gathered?

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I'm thinking Robinhood did the whole fake account thing right! Wells Fargo employees had the bright idea of creating fake accounts.  The problem is that they were actually real! As a result they lost money operating those accounts and then lost even more money paying fines.  

Robinhood did it right!  If you want to create fake accounts, make sure they're really fake!  Sure, the SIPC and SEC will shut you down, but who cares.  You just got 1 million emails (maybe more).  You get to keep the emails without doing the fiddly bits of actually opening accounts!

Does Bloomberg ever assert editorial control over your pieces? Or are you pretty much free to write on whatever you please?

I love RSS, but mostly get blank stares when I mention it to other ppl!

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What RSS aggregator do you use, feedly?

Matt, have you though about announcing a "Matt's Checking & Savings"? you could offer 3.5% interest. Sure you might get shut down, but if you ask for ppls emails in a waiting list you'll get a lot of new subscribers!

For students at elite colleges, I think what gets you a job is not what you studied, it's the networks that get built up over time. Studying humanities at Harvard never "qualified" you to work at Goldman, but it did put you into the right network with the right pipelines.

Tech is newish. Elite institutions have yet to build robust pipeline's into tech to the same degree they build robust pipelines into finance. But pipelines do exist are they and growing fast!