FYI - For Your Innovation

Talking The Tezos Network with Arthur and Kathleen Breitman

The world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is a rapidly evolving sector that has grown tremendously in popularity in recent years. However, the original philosophy of crypto and blockchain has been altered by interests in capital gain and convenience, eroding the founding ethos of the technology. This was not acceptable to today’s guests, Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, who decided to build a blockchain technology that ensured the original spirit of the technology was preserved. Ar...

The Future of AI with Manu Sharma

Today, Will Summerlin hosts a conversation with Manu Sharma, founder and CEO of Labelbox, a privately held data curation and artificial intelligence (AI) company. In the episode, Manu unpacks the role of AI in powering real-world solutions, discusses why he believes the AI paradigm shift is really all about data, and what motivates him to create a product suite to orchestrate AI activities. We also dive into the rapid AI driven transformations that enterprises are facing today, how they nav...

Gilt Trip with Cathie Wood

On this episode of For Your Innovation, we showcase Episode 34 of our monthly video series, “In the Know,” from October 7, 2022. ARK CEO, CIO and Founder Cathie Wood, weighs in on M2 growth, inventory pile-ups, liability driven investing, commodity prices, and why we believe the Fed is making a mistake as they base policy on lagging economic indicators. She discusses fiscal policy, monetary policy, market signals, economic indicators, and innovation. To read our full open letter to the Fed...

Inventing Base Editing with Doctors Nicole Gaudelli and Alexis Komor

Please note: as of 6/30/22, ARK’s clients own greater than 1% of the shares outstanding of Beam Therapeutics Inc. On today’s episode, ARK analyst Ali Urman hosts the inventors of the adenine base editor (ABE) and the cytosine base editor (CBE) Nicole Gaudelli and Alexis Komor, respectively. Nicole is the Senior Director and Head of Gene Editing Platform Technologies at Beam Therapeutics, and Alexis is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry DNA damage and repair and Genome edi...

Personalizing Private Wealth with Titan CEOs Joe Percoco and Clay Gardner

On today’s episode, ARK analysts Max Friedrich and Will Summerlin are joined by co-founders and co-CEOs of Titan, an online investment management platform, Joe Percoco, and Clay Gardner. In this episode, we hear how these business partners met and founded their company, their mission, and vision, how they remove the ‘middleman,’ and more. We also discuss what Titan believes prevents investors from trying to build a distribution channel, and what information investors care about the most. Jo...

Exploring Big Green DAO with Kimbal Musk

In this episode of For Your Innovation, we sit down with multi-hyphenate Kimbal Musk to talk about food justice, Big Green, and its latest branch, Big Green Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). Billed as the first non-profit-led philanthropic DAO, this experiment is aiming to use the power of decentralization and automation to impact lives on the most basic level. Kimbal shares a little about why this work has him so excited and feels like the natural progression of the efforts he h...

Discussing The Current State Of The Investment Industry with Eric Balchunas

On today’s episode of the For Your Innovation podcast, our Chief Futurist Brett Winton interviews Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas. Eric Balchunas is Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, where he leads the ETF and passive fund research and contributes to Bloomberg Opinion. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, as well as the co-creator of the Bloomberg podcast Trillions and Bloomberg TV’s ETF IQ. Eric is also the author of the recently released, The Bogle Effect, a...

Exploring the Custodia Bank Project with Caitlin Long and Angie Dalton

Today CEO and CIO Cathie Wood and Angie Dalton engage Caitlin Long, the CEO and Founder of the privately owned Custodia Bank, in an insightful conversation about her work and her particular take on the possibilities of crypto technologies in the current climate. Caitlin’s approach is one we do not hear about so often, and we get to explore how Custodia Bank is hoping to harness the powers of new technology and at the same time focus on proper regulation adherence and improving the dominant ...

Making AI Accessible with Scale AI CEO Alex Wang

The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) may appeal to many businesses for its cost-saving potential, but ARK believes its ability to enable scaling reaches far beyond. Today, we are joined by the CEO of Scale AI, Alex Wang, to talk about the problem Scale was born out of, and its mission to enable every organization to utilize AI technology. In our conversation, we touch on everything from Scale’s origin story and its success in improving data set curation systems for machine learning algo...

The Future of Web3 Games and Digital Ownership

Today Frank Downing and Nick Grous are joined by current CEO of Polygon Studios, Ryan Wyatt! A lifelong gamer and technology enthusiast, Ryan shares his journey through these worlds as a user and then as a professional before we dive into Polygon and some of the foundational elements of what they are doing in the gaming and non-fungible token (NFT) space. Ryan talks about the Polygon protocol, and also how the company relates and compares to its peers and adjacent technologies. From there, ...

The Dust is Settling in the Cryptocurrency Market

Resisting Recession with Cathie Wood

Enabling the Metaverse Revolution with Improbable CEO Herman Narula

E-Commerce in Indonesia with Bukalapak President Teddy Oetomo

Discussing Our Roku Valuation with Nick Grous and Andrew Kim

Exploring Space Laser Communication with Mynaric CEO Bulent Altan

Finding Growth with Cathie Wood

Discussing our Zoom Valuation with Will Summerlin and Andrew Kim

The Future of Blockchain and Healthcare with Dr. Alex Cahana

End to End 3D Printing with Velo3D CEO Benny Buller

Transforming the Moving World with Cyrus Sigari

Stemloop, Biotech, and Rapid Tests with Khalid Alam

The Future of Robotics as a Service with Saman Farid of Formic

Technologies Are Converging

Transforming Medicine with Dr. Agnieszka Czechowicz

Geopolitics, Innovation, and Deglobalization With Peter Zeihan

Discussing Our Tesla Valuation

Enhancing Human Connection in the Metaverse with Philip Rosedale and Angela Dalton

Space, Business, and the Business of Space with Jared Isaacman from Shift4 Payments

The Past, Present, and Future of Genetic Counseling with Emily Fassi

Renewing Home Energy with Kathy Hannun from Dandelion Energy

Financing Space with Chris Quilty and Caleb Henry

Big Ideas 2022 with Cathie Wood and Chris Hayes

Base Editing with Beam Therapeutics CEO John Evans

Ultra-Long-Range Genomic Information with Ivan Liachko

Going to Outer Space with Dr. Christyl Johnson

Optogenetics, RNA Editing and CRISPR with Dr. Feng Zhang

On-Chain Data: A Framework to Evaluate Bitcoin

The Gene-Editing Revolution with Verve Therapeutics

The Strengths of an Innovation-Based Portfolio

The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing with Kevin Davies

An Outlook on Biotechnology with Sam Kulkarni, CEO CRISPR Therapeutics

Best of 2021 – FYI Podcast Compilation

Meet the Scientists: Dr. Omar Abudayyeh and Dr. Jonathan Gootenberg

The Evolving World of RNA Editing with Dr. David Nelles

The Creator Economy with Sima Gandhi

The Past, Present, and Future of the COVID 19 Pandemic with Dr. Scott Gottlieb

The Past, Present, and Future of the COVID 19 Pandemic

Casting one’s mind back to the start of the COVID 19 pandemic can feel like a surreal exercise in time travel. At the time, New York’s healthcare system was on the brink of collapse, a national shutdown was imminent, and the prospect of a vaccine against the virus was far from certain. Back in the present, 18 months on, we have an opportunity to reflect on the American response to the pandemic: why we were ill-prepared, what we could have done differently and how we might prepare for future...

Invisible Technologies with Francis Pedraza

Automation and Invisible Technologies with Francis Pedraza

Today, ARK is joined by a person who isn’t afraid to do things differently, Francis Pedraza, the CEO of Invisible Technologies. In Francis’ own words, “Invisible is ops as a service,” and the idea for the private company was sparked by his realization about why everything isn’t yet automated, even though there’s an automation tool for everything. The way Invisible funds their operation is just as unique in the technology startup world as is their way of operating. Over the course of this po...