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The company’s critics liken the environment to a casino, but its fans credit Robinhood with democratizing the lucrative world of sophisticated investments.

The rise of high-yield bonds in the 1980s democratized the public debt market, allowing non-investment-grade companies to easily raise capital.

Companies such as Zillow Rentals and CoStar’s Apartments.com have been successful in democratizing access to listings by aggregating the supply in one location.

"We want to democratize gene therapy by creating off-the-shelf tools that can cure a large group of patients in one shot," Finkelstein said.

Managers of private assets say they want to democratize investing by letting regular savers invest in areas pensions, endowments and other sophisticated investors have long had access to.