KITSU, VLAD TENEV’S DOG.

Menlo Park throwback.

“Throwback to this old (circa 2015) conference room at our Menlo Park office. Guess what we named it?”

Vlad posts an old photo from the early Robinhood era. His Shiba is already there, sitting in the middle of the scene.

The famous dog post.

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

Vlad posts his own dog. This is the receipt that turned a background cameo into the face of the whole story.

The collar tag reads KITSU.

The name on the tag: KITSU

Official Robinhood footage shows the collar close enough to read. That tag is the bridge from “Vlad’s dog” to a ticker.

• CAPTIONRobinhood’s own social team captioned it “vladdy?”. Not “Vlad”. That is dog dad phrasing.
• LEASHThe hand holding the leash in frame belongs to Vlad.
• BEHAVIORThe moment he moves, Kitsu turns, sits and locks in on him. Dogs do that for their owner, not for a coworker.

Still answering with a dog.

“If anyone asks if we’re dog friendly, send them this.”

Asked whether Robinhood is dog friendly, Vlad answers the only way he does. Three years after the last receipt, the motif has not moved an inch.

The same person holding Kitsu.

“Guess who is holding kitsu here in the video on tiktok? Same shirt. Is that vladdy?”

The follow-up isolates another frame from the official Robinhood TikTok: someone in a dark blue long sleeve is holding Kitsu close and calming him down. The claim is that this is not a random office handler, but the same person seen controlling the leash.

Same shirt, same cuff.

“You can tell it is him for sure too because there’s that white bit on the cuff.”

The second frame puts the leash shot beside the shirt detail: navy long sleeve, dark pants, white shoes, and a small white cuff edge. It strengthens the Vlad read, while the broader case still rests on the full stack: KITSU tag, “Vladdy?” caption, leash behavior, and years of Vlad posts with the dog.