Robinhood fires back after Warren Buffett slams free-trading app

Robinhood quickly fired back.

“There is an old guard that doesn’t want average Americans to have a seat at the Wall Street table so they will resort to insults,” said the company in a statement Saturday that did not mention Buffett or Munger by name.

“Adversaries of this future and of change are usually those who’ve enjoyed plentiful privileges in the past and who don’t want these privileges disrupted,” Robinhood added, saying that the “criticisms are unfortunate” and the “new generation of investors aren’t a ‘casino group.'”

“Two of the most iconic investors insulted a new generation this weekend. Why? Because we are doing things a new way,” wrote Jacqueline Ortiz Ramsay, Robinhood’s head of public policy communications, in the post.

Ramsay added that “people are tired of the Warren Buffetts and Charlie Mungers of the world acting like they are the only oracles of investing. And at Robinhood, we’re not going to sit back while they disparage everyday people for taking control of their financial lives.”

She noted that “Robinhood has made investing simpler and more accessible to more people” and that “it is clear that the elites benefited from a stock market that kept many families sidelined from participating while they amassed huge wealth from decades of investing.”

The comments are another sign of how Robinhood has been on the defensive as of late.