Before the app,
there was the alias.

Thelonious Mustache

Co-founder Baiju Bhatt was a college jazz-and-funk guitarist who DJed under a name too good to be real. Not a marketing exercise. An actual, buried alias from before any of it. The kind of detail that becomes a whole identity.

The Remix

Baiju and Vlad Tenev, the long-haired chess kid, grew up, met at university, and built Robinhood. Zero commissions, markets in everyone's pocket, Wall Street's least favorite app. The mustache predates all of it.

"In college I played guitar in a jazz/funk band and I DJed under the moniker 'Thelonious Mustache.'"