BlackRock's Crypto Strategy With Samara Cohen
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I think that we are really early in our, in our digital assets journey. And as I said, I think we are really bullish on the potential for tokenization to improve access to capital markets, and make them work better. We will continue to invest in our capabilities to to build those bridges. And how you get from point a to point b is, something we need to spend time on. What is the turning point where more people's investments go on chain than off chain?
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my gosh. Please don't read my bio. I,
and I don't I I I think I'll get this one right. I created it myself, but I it's possibly the most impressive bio we've had on Empire, so I actually do feel compelled to read it. So we've got Samara Cohen. Samara is the chief investment officer of ETF and index investments at BlackRock, the CIO of BlackRock, BlackRock's ETF business. What does that mean? Manages the market quality and investment integrity of roughly 7,800,000,000,000.0 of BlackRock's index funds and iShares ETFs. Before BlackRock, Samara was the managing director in the securities division of Goldman Sachs. Also, I'm just gonn
thank you for including that, Jason.
It's important as a as a history major. And my cofounder, Mike, was a classics major. I
love that. You
gotta get the theater major in there. Absolutely.
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