I asked Cathie Wood the question no one else will

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Get the free investing playbook to invest like Warren Buffet: https://clickhubspot.com/rme Episode 760: Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) talks to Cathie Wood ( https://x.com/CathieDWood ) about her fund’s performance, her biggest bets on AI, and the most misunderstood stock on earth. — Show Notes: (0:00) McDonald’s to Managing Billions (8:54) A day in the life of Cathie Wood (17:29) ARK’s Performance Review (30:00) Cathie’s #1 stock pick — Links: • ARK - https://www.ark-funds.com/ • The MFM Newsletter Challenge - https://www.beehiiv.com/application/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	You manage more money than any other woman on earth.
0:03.0	Across the company, we're closing in on $40 billion.
0:06.0	She's called one of the most disruptive and innovative forces.
0:09.0	Cathy Wood making some big headlines.
0:11.0	The ARC innovation ETF soared over the early pandemic.
0:15.0	If I'm a believer in AI, what's the number one stock that I should own?
0:20.0	I think everyone knows about Nvidia.
0:22.6	We always try and answer that question with stocks.
0:26.0	People are not thinking about in the right way.
0:29.5	So here's the tough question.
0:30.8	If somebody else had your track record, would you invest in them?
0:35.4	Well.
0:37.3	I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. you invest in them? Well.
0:39.5	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:41.7	I know I could be what I want to.
0:47.3	Kathy Wood, you're here.
0:48.7	I appreciate you doing this.
0:50.4	You're a pretty remarkable person.
0:52.1	I've been watching you for a long time.
0:56.3	And there's a good chance that you manage more money than any other woman on earth as an active fund manager. I don't know if that's exactly true,
1:00.8	but you may be top five. Yeah, probably. I don't know. I don't know myself. I don't have those
1:05.9	members. Yeah. I'm curious, actually, what's the humble origin? So what was Kathy Wood's first job?
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