Cathie Wood on Investing, Spot Bitcoin ETFs, $1 Million Bitcoin and What Drives Her

Cathie Wood is the founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Investment Management.
In this episode we discuss:

-Cathie's origin story and career path
-Lessons from the history of boom and bust cycles
-Monetary policy failures
-Why Bitcoin is important for everyone to understand
-ARK's investment strategy of disruptive innovation
-Banking failures and counter-party risk
-Spot Bitcoin ETFs
-$1 million Bitcoin forecast
-What drives Cathie and gives her purpose

Cathie created ARK in 2014 to identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. She earned her Bachelor's in Finance and Economics from USC. In 2018, Cathie launched the Duddy Innovation Institute at her alma mater, Notre Dame Academy in Los Angeles, offering a challenging educational experience for young women.

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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:

0:00 Benefits of moving around as a kid
3:19 Early relationship with money, 70's stagflation
9:10 Art Laffer, Laffer Curve
13:15 "Monetary policy is unhinged."
15:47 Managing portfolios during dot com bubble
18:39 Navigating 2008-09 financial crisis
23:51 Bitcoin Amsterdam, Bitcoin 2024, Fold app promos
24:54 Educating investors
29:16 Bitcoin's value proposition
35:29 Harder landing coming
42:58 Coinkite ColdCard, CrowdHealth, Orange Pill App promos
44:58 Regional banking crisis
46:30 Bitcoin Spot ETFs
49:10 ARK Invest's ETF application
53:03 $1 million Bitcoin price by 2030
58:28 Truth and innovation will win out

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