Who is Baiju Bhatt who made a place in the top ten American Youngest Billioners list

New Delhi. Bharatvanshi entrepreneur Baiju Bhatt has got a place in the Forbes’s Youngst Billioners list. Bhatt’s family settled from Gujarat to America. 40-year-old Baiju today owns assets of $ 6 billion (about ₹ 50,000 crore) and co-founder of a stock trading app called Robinhood. In childhood, Baiju faced a lot of difficulties due to his father being ill. The financial condition of the house was so bad that even if his family wanted India, India could not come to meet its relatives.

The difficult situations taught Baiju Bhatt the real meaning of struggle at a very young age. He was always fast in studies. Baiju was born in a Gujarati family. His father received scholarship to pursue PhD from American educational institution for studies. With this, he reached America. Baiju’s family lived in Pokwosone, a small town in Virginia. Baiju studied school from here.

Being the only child, Baiju not only had to focus on studies but also had to see the difficulties of the house with his eyes. However, despite adverse circumstances, he continued his studies. After schooling, he studied Physics at Stanford University. It was from here that the direction of his life started changing. He then earned a master’s degree in mathematics in 2008. During his studies, he met Vlad Tennev and both of them got friends.

Robinhood launched in 2013

Both Vlad and Baiju had a dream to make the financial market easy for the common people through technology. It is from here that Robinhood was laid – an app that connected millions of Americans to stock market and trading. Launched in 2013, Robinhood made a splash in the financial world. Baiju, along with Vlad, made this app the first choice of young investors. Robinhood provided share trading without commission, which was a revolutionary step at that time.