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Gross profits, not net. Their net profit is probably negative, like most growth stage pre-IPO or recently-IPO tech companies. They were looking at IPOing at a $30B valuation. The fine is 0.2% of their anticipated market cap.


0.2% of cap also looks significant for the first offense.

What do you think would be an appropriate fine?


This isn't the first offense. They were fined $65M in Dec 2020 for similar infractions [1]. Clearly that wasn't enough to deter bad behavior. I'm a fan of exponential backoff. Pick an exponent. 3x-10x the last infraction seems reasonable (assuming similar levels of harm to users).

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robinhood-sec-fine-65-million/


3x exponential sounds right. Thank you for the context!




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