Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria to outline fintech’s next chapter at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Robinhood has spent the last decade trying to convince Wall Street it’s more than a meme-stock casino. With a valuation now approaching $100B and a product lineup spanning investing, banking, credit, crypto, and prediction markets, the company is sending one of its longest-tenured product leaders to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to explain what comes next. Abhishek Fatehpuria, Vice President of Product Management for Brokerage at Robinhood, will take the Industry Stage on October 13 in San Francisco for a session titled “Winning the Modern Financial Consumer.” The 25-minute talk is set to cover how shifting expectations around payments, investing, and money management are reshaping financial services from the ground up. From intern to product architect Fatehpuria joined the company in May 2016 as an intern, back when Robinhood was primarily known for commission-free stock trading and little else. A decade later, he’s running product for the brokerage arm of a company that has ballooned into a full-stack financial platform. Under his watch, Robinhood has rolled out increasingly ambitious product bets. The most notable recent addition is Cortex, an AI-driven assistant that’s approaching on...