Episodes

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK’s strategies are on the right side of chang...

On this episode of FYI, our hosts and special guest Dr. Ann Marie Sastry dive into the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and education. They discuss the importance of engagement in education, the role of technology and generative AI, and the need to inspire learners in new ways. Dr. Sastry shares her experience founding two companies, Amesite and Sakti3, and her passion for innovating education. The conversation covers personalized teaching and how AI can help people leverage their st...

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK’s strategies are on the right side of chang...

Immunotherapy has the potential to cure cancer. Today we are joined by a leading figure in cancer studies and research and one who has helped shape the immunotherapy landscape, Dr. Patrick Hwu. The internationally recognized Dr. Hwu previously applied his trade at the National Cancer Institute and is now the President and CEO of one of America’s leading cancer hospitals, the Moffitt Cancer Center. We tap into Dr. Hwu’s wealth of knowledge and experience as he explains what immunotherapy is, its ...

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK’s strategies are on the right side of chang...

According to Dr. Arthur Laffer, since 1913, when the United States first imposed the income tax via constitutional amendment, the top rate of that tax has determined the fate of the American economy. When the top rate has been high, as in the late 1910s, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1970s, the response of those with money and capital has been to curtail real economic activity in favor of protecting assets and income streams. Huge declines have come to the economy in these circumstances. On toda...

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK’s strategies are on the right side of chang...

We are very excited to be joined today by one of the world’s leaders in scientific and biological research, Dr. Jonathan Weissman. After a breakdown of Jonathan’s professional background, we dive into CRISPR and how the genetic engineering tool can be used for drug development, disease discovery, and as a therapeutic treatment of its own. You’ll learn how our guest is using CRISPR in his lab and some of the solutions that he and his team have come up with for protein misfolding. Jonathan explain...

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK’s strategies are on the right side of chang...

Reducing complexity, increasing speed, enhancing the user interface, reducing costs, reducing waste, enhancing equality, and saving lives; this is the mission of Zipline. Today on the show, we are joined by Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, the co-founder of the company on a mission to provide the world with an autonomous drone logistics system that is incomparable to any other delivery service on the planet. Despite the enormous amount of skepticism they were up against, Keller and his team chose to tur...

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK’s strategies are on the right side of chang...

Join us today for a conversation on the exciting progress and possibilities of genetics in pediatric care, with Dr. Caleb Bupp. Caleb is the Division Chief of Medical Genetics and Genomics at Spectrum Health and Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, and we get to hear from him about his path into this role, and how he first discovered his passion for helping young ones. Our guest comments on the central themes of parental communication, cost reduction, and genetic exceptionalism before we delve into ...

Welcome to the Big Ideas Monday Miniseries, brought to you by the For Your Innovation Podcast. Big Ideas is meant to enlighten investors on the long-term impact of innovation. This annual research report seeks to highlight the technological breakthroughs evolving today and creating the potential for super-exponential growth tomorrow. We believe that innovation is taking off now, corroborating our original research and boosting our confidence that ARK’s strategies are on the right side of chang...

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object in low Earth orbit and serves as a unique platform for scientific research and technological development. It was first made operational in the year 2000 and acts as a symbol of international diplomacy, demonstrating how countries can work together to achieve a common goal, despite political or cultural differences. And as the ISS enters its third decade of operation, it nears the end of its planned operational life, which is ...

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Drug development is an extremely expensive endeavor, in large part because of the 96% failure rate of clinical drug trials. However, the new frontier of medicine has arrived, and Sean McClain and Joshua Meier (respectively the Founder/CEO and Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer of Absci) are leading the charge. Absci is a public company harnessing generative AI to create more effective medicines faster and less expensively. During this episode, Sean and Joshua explain how their pooled app...

The concept of the metaverse has been around for decades, but recent advances in technology and the growing popularity of virtual worlds and online gaming have led to renewed interest in the idea. To help us unpack the nuance of the metaverse is Yonatan Raz-Fridman, the CEO and Founder of Supersocial, a metaverse enterprise building immersive digital experiences. Supersocial aims to pioneer the future of digital interactions, where people can seamlessly merge reality with fantasy and connect in ...

Scaling laws are as important to artificial intelligence (AI) as the law of gravity is in the world around us. AI is the empirical science of this decade, and Cerebras is a company dedicated to turning state-of-the-art research on large language models (LLMs) into open-source data that can be reproduced by developers across the world. In this episode, James Wang, an ARK alum and product marketing specialist at Cerebras, joins us for a discussion centered around the past and the future of LLM dev...

The gaming industry has seen massive innovations in the past two decades, from the rise of online gaming to the release of unprecedented virtual reality (VR) products. And in that time the industry has seen massive growth, going from an estimated $30 billion a year worldwide at the start of the twenty-first century, to generating an astounding $200 billion in 2022. Joining us today to discuss the business of gaming in 2023 is Angie Dalton, an advisor for ARK Invest and the CEO and Founder of Sig...

The rise of Web3, blockchain, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has disrupted many industries, including video gaming. To help us unpack the role of Web3 in the video game industry is John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games, a game tech studio pioneering digital asset ownership, scarcity, and secondary markets. Their team creates products to drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger tech. John has a deep love for video games and a curiosity for exploring the potential of blockchain technologies. In ...

We are pleased to bring you the second edition of the ARK Crypto Brainstorm; a quarterly conversation between a rotating group of experts in the crypto space, The ARK Crypto Brainstorm is published through the For Your Innovation podcast channels and aims to be an informative and in-depth conversation on the current state of the ever-changing crypto landscape with experts offering diverse viewpoints. In the second edition of the ARK Crypto Brainstorm, ARK Crypto Lead Yassine Elmandjra and ARK C...

On March 17, 2023, Balaji Srinivasan wrote a tweet thread that started with a simple, shocking bet that the price of one Bitcoin would reach $1,000,000 in the next 90 days. Balaji is an American entrepreneur and investor. He was the co-founder of Counsyl, the former Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase, and former general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. ARK CEO and CIO Cathie Wood agrees that the price of a Bitcoin could reach $1M, but ARK’s prediction on when this might...

On this episode of For Your Innovation, we wanted to highlight last week’s special edition of “In the Know,” a monthly video series featuring ARK CEO/CIO, Cathie Wood. In this special episode, Cathie is joined by her mentor, former professor, and advisor to ARK Investment Management LLC, Dr. Art Laffer. Famous for the Laffer Curve, Art is an economist and was named one of Time’s Greatest Minds of the 20th Century. Together, Cathie and Art dive into the recent banking crisis and the world of cry...

Gene therapy is gaining momentum as a noteworthy adversary to cancer, and we are thrilled to be joined today by one of the pioneers of immune system-based treatments. Professor Waseem Qasim applies his craft at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, which is notorious for being the largest concentration of children’s health research in Europe. Professor Qasim explains why he pursued a career in gene therapy, how three patients and technological advancements formed the basis of hi...