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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Joining our conversation now is Kathy Woods. She is the

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Speaker 2: Arkaves CEO and CIO. Kathy, you're with us for the

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Speaker 2: whole show, which is a real luxury. And I want

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Speaker 2: to start with crypto because it's day three of Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump's second administration. We've heard a lot about immigration, AI

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Speaker 2: and tariffs just in those three days.

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Speaker 3: Not as much about crypto just yet. What do you

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Speaker 3: make of that?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I think he is very committed to crypto. Actually, what

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Speaker 4: happened the night before his inauguration, I think he launched

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Speaker 4: some meme coins and that caused quite a stir in

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Speaker 4: the crypto community. He's also named Paul Atkins to be

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Speaker 4: the SEC Commissioner.

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Speaker 1: He is pro crypto.

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Speaker 4: Senator Lummis has said that she's looking forward to the

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Speaker 4: Atkins diet are under at Kins as he becomes the

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Speaker 4: SEC Commissioner and really regulates digital assets.

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Speaker 1: The way they should be regulated.

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Speaker 5: And so, Kathy, let's talk about this just because it

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Speaker 5: just happened. A filing came in. It had ETFs that

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Speaker 5: will track dosee, Trump coin Bonk along with some other ones,

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Speaker 5: and it was a forty Act filing. Which would use

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Speaker 5: the Kman subsidiary move. You know this is going to

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Speaker 5: be either approved or denied in seventy five days. Do

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Speaker 5: you see the SEC being like totally liberal letting all

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Speaker 5: this stuff through or do you think they will draw

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Speaker 5: a line somewhere?

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Speaker 4: I think the SEC is going to be prudent, But

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Speaker 4: in terms of liberal, I think that as long as

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Speaker 4: the sponsors are following the forty Act laws, that they

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Speaker 4: will allow many of these new products.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 6: So, speaking of new products, you mentioned the trump coin.

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Speaker 6: I want to get your as someone who sees a

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Speaker 6: the best way to understand trump coin? Given that there's

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Speaker 6: no intrinsic value, what purpose does it serve beyond as

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Speaker 6: an advertising advertisement marketing tool for him?

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Speaker 4: Yes, it is a it's a meme coin. In twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 4: we went through the ico movement, which was very much

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Speaker 4: if you remember, crypto Kitties started a movement back then

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Speaker 4: in icos.

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Speaker 1: This is part of the meme coin moment.

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Speaker 4: Isn't going to have any utility we shall see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are there.

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Speaker 4: Is speculation that you know, you'll get to meet President Trumpez,

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Speaker 4: one of the utilities.

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Speaker 1: Of owning this coin.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the case or not, but

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Speaker 4: so far we don't know of much utility for this

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Speaker 4: coin except that it is a mean coin of President

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Speaker 4: Trump himself in the early days of I think he's

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Speaker 4: ushering in the next phase of the crypto revolution.

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Speaker 2: Well, Kathy, with all that in mind, would you buy

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Speaker 2: the meme type coins.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've pretty much stayed away from the meme coins.

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Speaker 1: Uh. You know, we're very focused on the big three.

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Speaker 4: So Bitcoin, uh and as you know, ar kb is

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Speaker 4: one of the larger spot bitcoin ETFs out there. Happily uh,

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Speaker 4: Ether and Solana in in our private funds.

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Speaker 1: So those those we believe are the big three.

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Speaker 4: And then we think that the decentralized financial services movement

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Speaker 4: even finternet. We think that is going to be big.

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Speaker 4: That's very Ethereum and Solana based. And so there are

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Speaker 6: Kathy, I just want to ask one final question here

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Speaker 6: on trump coin. Do you share the concerns of some

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Speaker 6: in the crypto industry that perhaps this reinforces the worst

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Speaker 6: part of the industry, that it's a mockery of serious tokens.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 4: And Chris Berniski, who was our first crypto analyst, now

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Speaker 4: we would call that digital assets analysts, he made a

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Speaker 4: comment on Excess Weekend that I think is true that

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Speaker 4: the ic Ico movement in twenty seventeen really brought this

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Speaker 1: A whole new group of people.

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Speaker 4: And while you know, some in the traditional crypto world

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Speaker 4: We had I think, if I'm not mistaken, Bitcoin went

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Speaker 4: This is a lot like the early days of the Internet,

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Speaker 4: some of that buyer beware, some of that ended badly

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Speaker 4: or ended badly for many years, but it really did

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Speaker 4: spawn a very important movement in technology, and we think

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Speaker 4: the name is true here.

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Speaker 5: Kathy, let's move on to Trump's second term. Here. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: stocks have had a great run the past two years.

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Speaker 5: He generally has seen as bullish for stocks. But then

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Speaker 5: there's tariffs. You're running all these funds, You've got stocks

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Speaker 5: to buy and sell. What are you doing differently now

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Speaker 5: that he is fully in office.

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Speaker 4: Well, we are doing what we've always done, which is

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Speaker 4: investing in truly transformative innovation across sectors, so.

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Speaker 1: That we have not changed at all.

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Speaker 4: There is a meme out there going around which is

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Speaker 4: very interesting and unfortunately in these momentum driven markets, perhaps.

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Speaker 1: More true than we would have liked.

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Speaker 4: If you look at the beginning of the last administration,

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Speaker 4: that was our peak, the peak in innovation, and we

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Speaker 4: went through, as did everybody, a bear market hit disproportionately,

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Speaker 4: and we had been underperforming until it seems the idea

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Speaker 4: that we were going to have a new administration started

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Speaker 4: moving into the market. So when you say the market

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Speaker 4: has been very strong, sure yes it has, but it

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Speaker 4: has been very concentrated to a very few names. In fact,

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Speaker 4: if you use a Goldman study, it has never been

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Speaker 4: more concentrated. And this includes during the Great Depression when

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Speaker 4: that was a binary decision. With twenty five percent unemployment

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Speaker 4: and thirty percent drop.

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Speaker 1: In GDP, is this company going to survive?

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Speaker 4: We were more concentrated than that, so I would say

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Speaker 4: even though the market did hit all time highs, it

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Speaker 4: been a lot of fear out there, and I think

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Speaker 4: what the new administration is doing is changing fear into optimism.

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Speaker 4: And you know, with deregulation, I think that's highly underestimated

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Speaker 4: how important deregulation is going to be to unleashing animal spirits.

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Speaker 1: So we're pretty excited about this.

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Speaker 4: And yes, our strategies are starting to break out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's momentum or not. We haven't

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Speaker 4: We think these companies are going to transform the world.

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Speaker 4: They're just now being recognized a little bit more. But

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Speaker 6: Focus here on private assets and Kathy, you of course

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Speaker 6: have a ARC venture fund that invests in private companies

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Speaker 6: and among those holdings are a couple of names that

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Speaker 6: are familiar to everyone. SpaceX, Epic Games, open Ai, Anthropic.

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Speaker 6: I want to ask you about open Ai because following

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Speaker 6: within an initial investment of one hundred billion dollars, that company,

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Speaker 6: open ai just got a lot more valuable. How are

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Speaker 6: you thinking about how much you want to maybe not

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, we have a nice exposure now.

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Speaker 4: And you know, it's interesting to have watched that announcement

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Speaker 4: because we know how close Elon Musk with his XAI

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are some very.

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Speaker 4: Innovative companies who are going to accelerate this ai AH,

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Speaker 4: which in itself is moving at an incredible pace, a

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Speaker 1: What we're acquainting stargate to you.

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Speaker 4: So this is the five hundred billion dollar project is

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Speaker 1: The same amount.

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Speaker 4: So these are the digital highways that are going to

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Speaker 4: transform everything. They're going to transform everything and really accelerate

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Speaker 4: GDP growth in a way that I think most people.

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Speaker 1: Do not participate. Understand right now.

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Speaker 2: And let's talk a little bit about rappers. Of course,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about the ARC Venture Fund. It's a closed

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Speaker 2: end interval fund because you can't yet directly put private

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Speaker 2: You have seen some filings come through to that effect

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Speaker 2: do with Apollo, for example. I haven't yet seen private

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Speaker 3: Is that something that you're potentially thinking about?

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Speaker 4: Well, right now, we're very happy with the interval fund structure.

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Speaker 4: An interval fund allows daily inflows and quarterly redemptions up

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Speaker 4: better wrapper. I would think for these public private funds.

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Speaker 4: Roughly eighty percent of our interval fund is private, twenty

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Speaker 4: And I think the most important thing about this interval fund,

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Speaker 4: the democratization that this is allowing for venture capital. Finally,

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Speaker 1: So we're pretty excited about this wrapper.

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Speaker 5: Kathy, Just to push back on that a little bit,

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Speaker 5: there's this ETF called x XOVR, the er shares public

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Speaker 5: the flows of just came have come in gangbusters. It's

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Speaker 5: Is it just the case that people want it an

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Speaker 5: ETF even if the ETF trades, it's something like a

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Speaker 3: People just prefer that rapper.

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Speaker 5: Does that concern you at all?

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Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't concern me.

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Speaker 4: I think the more access to innovation anyone offers, the

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Speaker 4: better for our markets and the better for our competitive

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Speaker 1: So it doesn't bother me. It doesn't mean we won't

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Speaker 4: And I will tell you that mutual funds, many mutual

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Speaker 4: funds have allocated fifteen percent of their portfolios to private

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Speaker 4: don't get as much publicity, but this has been done before,

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Speaker 4: and I think as more and more people understand what

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Speaker 4: have to these incredible ideas, I think there's a place

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Speaker 2: So, Kathy, people call this the Trump two point zero

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Speaker 2: ETF Toddstone.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think this administration is going to be incredible

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Speaker 1: The only thing I would add is.

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Speaker 4: The flagship strategy A RKK includes the space, the innovation

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Speaker 1: Going to have.

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Speaker 4: We're going to see the most profound implications of artificial

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Speaker 4: The most profound is curing disease. That's what you would see.

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Speaker 4: And this new administration is all about innovation and kind

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Speaker 4: So there's going to be a whole new rethink, and

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Speaker 4: I think that's going to fall into benefiting AARKG and

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Speaker 6: Okay, so a rethink on that front. Also rethink when

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Speaker 6: it comes to what's going to happen with TikTok. It's

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Speaker 6: still not clear the future of this social media company,

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Speaker 4: Well, of course, we look at the valuation as always

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Speaker 1: Years it were we believed it would.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate at more than a fifteen percent compound annual rate

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Speaker 4: lot of bidders out there, a lot of people very

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Speaker 1: And we understand why. We just want to see the valuation.

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Speaker 4: It is one of the most important social media companies

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Speaker 5: All Right, Kathy, I have a request question from James

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Speaker 5: Seyfert on my team. Of all your individual strategies, including AARKK,

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Speaker 4: I think the most underestimated is ARKG and the reason

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Speaker 4: for that is regulatory rethink altogether of what we're doing

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Speaker 1: There has not been price discovery.

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Speaker 4: What will a strategic buyer pay for these assets because

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Speaker 4: they weren't allowed to buy them. Now, if you look

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Speaker 4: at biotech of pharma, I think that four hundred billion

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Speaker 1: Our companies will fill that space, but.

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Speaker 4: They were not allowed to be acquired by and therefore

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Speaker 4: we had no price discovery, right, that is change?

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Speaker 2: All right, Kathy, We have about a minute left with you,

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Speaker 2: and you mentioned M and A. Something we're also waiting

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Speaker 2: for is for IPOs to come back. And you think

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Speaker 3: What do you make of that? Do you think that's

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Speaker 1: I hope so.

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Speaker 4: I do think regulatory changes will go a long way

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Speaker 4: And there's another reason, I would say, and that is

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Speaker 2: All right, Kathy, So great to get so much time

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Speaker 2: with you. Hope to speak against him. Our thanks of

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Speaker 2: course to Kathy would of ARC invest