"Robinhood's free-trading revolution helped pave the way to the recent Reddit mayhem on Wall Street.
The rise of Robinhood means that the ability to buy stocks, on a whim, is now at everyone's fingertips. Robinhood has opened investing up to the masses.
Rival online brokerages were forced to mimic Robinhood's zero-commission business model, and some joined forces just to survive. "