Rob Schoder Jr

CEO @vinylequity. Ex-@angellist (ran Portfolio + Crypto Ops) and @flexport (cofounded + scaled Chicago office).

[Rob Schoder Jr @Secondrob]

Thank you @SashaFintech for hosting me on the @twifintech podcast!

@SashaFintech was one of our earliest believers at @vinylequity and I was so excited to have the opportunity to do this with her.

[This Week in Fintech @twifintech]

Your company goes public. Getting your shares into a brokerage account could still take weeks.

@robschoder tells @sashafintech why transfer agents are such an expensive problem, even though most shareholders only deal with one once, and how @vinylequity is working to change that.

Also on This Week in Fintech, @bayareawriter unpacks how Vishal Garg regained control of Better's board after being removed as CEO, despite saying he doesn’t want the job back.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/1LrbFStgkW

[This Week in Fintech @twifintech]

A company can go public, but getting an employee’s shares into a brokerage account can still take weeks.

@robschoder of @vinylequity tells @sashafintech why transfer agents have been overlooked for decades, and why the SEC’s push to modernize the rules could change the infrastructure behind share ownership.

🎧 Hear the full conversation on This Week in Fintech: https://t.co/1LrbFStgkW

[Rob Schoder Jr @Secondrob]

@gpcastle12 @tbpn Congrats, @gpcastle12 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

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@Simpson4Ab3 I’m sure my parents would gladly grace the cover

[Rob Schoder Jr @Secondrob]

Found at my parents’ house.

In the time since this guacamole expired, their 5 kids all graduated college. They moved three times and had 6 grandchildren.

We have had 3 different US Presidents, missing the Bush Administration by 2 days.

We should all aspire to have the longevity and resilience of this guacamole.

[Rob Schoder Jr @Secondrob]

@MikeIsaac Will report back from the grave.

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@humcoinsomniac The guacamole is approaching adulthood

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@EzraMoGee Older than @startinglinevc

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@HumpA_55 Truly diabolical stuff

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@SharpestDegen @Nrcoope @Disney No AI was used to take this picture.

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@MaxCurnin 2027 is our year to test it.

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@Nrcoope @Disney does not need a reboot of the ‘90s TV show Teen Angel, but about a 38 year old man who ate 17 year old guac.

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@caropompizzi It just tastes better when it’s aged.

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@AndrewBTC I’m not sure I’d have been around to tweet it if I had.

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@nikitabier @Awads_ @Adrian_Bisson Experienced the same thing at Airbnb when experimenting with host growth programs. IN consumer, if it can be scammed, it will be scammed… within seconds of launching.

[Mike Belshe @mikebelshe]

Issuers lost their cap tables when we immobilized paper at DTC to solve the 1970s paper crisis. That crisis is long over. There is no good reason investors in 2026 should still be able to hide from the company whose equity they own.

Tokenization fixes this if the token is the share on the issuer’s register and not just a wrapper.

[Rob Schoder Jr @Secondrob]

@jayhinz @AngelList Crazy that you thought it was a local home services marketplace when you first took the job.

[Rob Schoder Jr @Secondrob]

@Katie_Roof Your anti portfolio

[Aporia @aporia9n]

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.

A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.

The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.

And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.

It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

[Rob Schoder Jr @Secondrob]

@tbhorka @Matt_Fortuna @PeteSampson_ Is there a single Notre Dame fan on the planet that has been wondering if Brian Kelly supports what Marcus Freeman and Mike Denbrock are doing?