Data Centers in Orbit by 2028: Baiju Bhatt on His Plans After Robinhood

What kind of founder walks away from a multi-billion-dollar fintech company to start building rockets? Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to talk about life after one of the most consequential companies in modern finance, and why he's now betting on Cowboy Space Corporation, an orbital infrastructure company building AI data centers that ride to space inside its own rockets. "I still have that dog in me," he says. Baiju opens up about building alone for the first time in 15 years and what he learned about product-market fit while scaling Robinhood through its most chaotic years. Connect with Baiju: X: https://x.com/BaijuBhatt?lang=en LinkedIn:   / bprafulkumar   Connect with Joubin: X: https://x.com/Joubinmir LinkedIn:   / joubin-mirzadegan-66186854   Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com Follow on LinkedIn:   / kpgrit   Follow on X: https://x.com/KPGrit ​Learn more about Kleiner Perkins: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/ 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:00 Building Robinhood and the transition to space 00:24:31 Cowboy Space and low-Earth orbit data centers 00:38:04 Vertical integration and the 2028 orbital data center launch 00:51:00 Criticisms, founder realities, and product market fit 01:10:37 Who Cowboy Space is hiring 01:11:03 What grit means to Baiju