Inside Cathie Wood’s Trillion-Dollar Bets: AI, Musk, Robots & Crypto
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We believe that real GDP growth is going to accelerate in the years ahead. We think in the next five years to 7%. Now, you know, we have five innovation platforms evolving with AI turbocharging, all of them robotics, energy storage, AI, blockchain technology, and multiomic sequencing. So we should see a much more rapid acceleration this time around than last time. We're being conservative when we say 7%. Welcome
to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of AI, robotics, brain implants, and crypto. This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with Josh Kale today, so not David. Josh is the cohost from our new limitless podcast. And today, we've got an exciting episode. We are chatting with ARK Invest founder and CEO, Cathy Wood, along with Brett Winton. These are two people whose job it is to predict tomorrow and to buy the future. They got a message for us, and I think it's one that bankless listeners need to hear. It's not enough to be a siloed investor. You can't just be an AI investor or a crypto investor be
So in this episode, you're about to hear a bunch of topics. How Elon's empire forms history's biggest AI data flywheel, Wright's law, which is the model that allows us to project the collapsing cost of AI, robotaxis, humanoid robots. There's a $20,000,000,000,000 battle happening between OpenAI, XAI, and Anthropic, and Ark Capstone, all three. The trillion dollar markets that are birthed by Starship's ultra cheap launches. We have Neuralink mind control robots. And then finally, stablecoins and how they ignite a bullish 2026 productivity super boom.
If that literally sounds like all the things, it's because it is. Now usually, we publish these episodes on Limitless, our Frontier Technology podcast, but we wanted you to hear this on Bankless too. But if you're not subscribed to Limitless, go do that now so you don't miss episodes like these. There's a link in the description you can subscribe on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever else you listen. So let's get right to the episode with Cathie Wood and Brett Whitton. But before we do, we wanna thank the sponsors that made this episode possible.
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Very excited to introduce you once again to Cathie Wood. She's one of innovation's loudest champions. Cathie, welcome back to the podcast. We're
happy to be here, Ryan. Thank you. Thank you, Josh, as well. We
also have Brett Witten. He is a chief future futurist at ARK Investment Management. Brett, it's great to have you on as well.
It's great to be here.
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