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The Winner of the Robinhood Backlash Is — Robinhood?

In recent weeks the stock trading app has been in reputational free fall. So why is it more popular than ever?

Rob Walker
Marker
Published in
5 min readFeb 17, 2021

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An illustration of a green Robin Hood cap (the bycocket) with the Robinhood company’s  feather logo placed four times along the cap.
Illustration by Julia Moburg for Marker

One company’s misery is often another’s opportunity, and that certainly seems to be the story of Public, an under-the-radar stock-trading app that’s…

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