Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
What kind of founder walks away from a multi-billion-dollar fintech company to start building rockets?
Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to talk about life after one of the most consequential companies in modern finance, and why he's now betting on Cowboy Space Corporation, an orbital infrastructure company building AI data centers that ride to space inside its own rockets.
"I still have that dog in me," he says.
Baiju opens up about building alone for the first time in 15 years and what he learned about product-market fit while scaling Robinhood through its most chaotic years.
Connect with Baiju:
X: https://x.com/BaijuBhatt?lang=en
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bprafulkumar
Connect with Joubin:
X: https://x.com/Joubinmir
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joubin-mirzadegan-66186854
Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com
Follow on LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/kpgrit
Follow on X:
https://x.com/KPGrit
Learn more about Kleiner Perkins: kleinerperkins.com
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 Building Robinhood and the transition to space
00:24:31 Cowboy Space and low-Earth orbit data centers
00:38:04 Vertical integration and the 2028 orbital data center launch
00:51:00 Criticisms, founder realities, and product market fit
01:10:37 Who Cowboy Space is hiring
01:11:03 What grit means to Baiju
What kind of founder walks away from a multi-billion-dollar fintech company to start building rockets?
Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to talk about life after one of the most consequential companies in modern finance, and why he's now betting on Cowboy Space Corporation, an orbital infrastructure company building AI data centers that ride to space inside its own rockets.
"I still have that dog in me," he says.
Baiju opens up about building alone for the first time in 15 years and what he learned about product-market fit while scaling Robinhood through its most chaotic years.
Connect with Baiju:
X: https://x.com/BaijuBhatt?lang=en
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bprafulkumar
Connect with Joubin:
X: https://x.com/Joubinmir
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joubin-mirzadegan-66186854
Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com
Follow on LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/kpgrit
Follow on X:
https://x.com/KPGrit
Learn more about Kleiner Perkins: kleinerperkins.com
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 Building Robinhood and the transition to space
00:24:31 Cowboy Space and low-Earth orbit data centers
00:38:04 Vertical integration and the 2028 orbital data center launch
00:51:00 Criticisms, founder realities, and product market fit
01:10:37 Who Cowboy Space is hiring
01:11:03 What grit means to Baiju
