Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Robinhood is no longer just the commission-free trading app that made its name in stocks. It now spans investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and newer bets like AI-powered trading, private markets, and international expansion. That shift is the point of Abhishek Fatehpuria’s session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where the company’s Vice President of Product Management for Brokerage will speak on the Smart Money Stage about “Winning the Modern Financial Consumer.”

The timing matters because Robinhood is growing into a much broader financial platform while customer expectations keep rising. People have gotten used to fast, intuitive software everywhere else in their lives, and they now expect the same from money products, just with a higher bar for trust. That creates a harder product problem than simply adding features. You can’t just pile on services and call it a strategy.

The numbers show how far the company has already moved. By the end of August 2026, Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in total platform assets. In its second-quarter results, it said Robinhood Banking had more than $3 billion in deposits, the credit card business had passed $100 million in annualized revenue, and prediction markets had seen more than 3.5 billion contracts traded through that point.

AI is becoming part of the pitch too. Robinhood has been experimenting with tools such as Cortex and Agentic Trading, and in Q2 it said nearly 100,000 customers had opened Agentic Trading accounts, using AI-powered agents to trade equities, options, and crypto. Prediction markets are moving especially fast: Robinhood said 4.7 billion event contracts traded in August alone, up 15x year over year. The bigger question hanging over all of this is whether the habits Robinhood is seeing now will spread across the rest of finance.

Fatehpuria’s session is really about whether a product can keep expanding without turning into a mess. That’s the real test, not the press release version of “innovation.” Adding more financial services is easy. Making them feel simple, trusted, and not weirdly chaotic is the part that eats companies alive.