📣 Personal news: Today is my last day at ARK. It's been an absolutely amazing six years with Cathie and the team.
I'll be headed back to Silicon Valley to work on the next generation of AI software. Meanwhile I'll be cheering on the ARK team every step of the way! 🙌
Between Stripe, Square, Bitcoin, and DeFi—banks are so, sooooo dead.
Stripe eats business banking.
Square eats retail customers.
Bitcoin eats fedwire.
DeFi eats lending.
Banks are dinosaur displays at the Smithsonian. They just don't know it yet.
Nvidia is now worth more than Intel + AMD combined.
That's the market's way of saying: x86 is a legacy architecture.
The workload of the future is SIMULATION.
Light -> raytracing
Physics -> n-body, CFD
AI -> neural nets
..and these will run on GPUs.
ARK's Big Ideas 2020 deck is here—a year of research packed into 80 slides covering AI, robotics, autonomous, genomics, bitcoin, and more.
Download: ark-invest.com/big-ideas-2020
Here are 5 slides that really hit it home. Thread:
You cannot learn about crypto by reading blogs and listening to podcasts. You have to *do* it.
Put $500 in metamask and try the top protocols. Think of gas as tuition fee. After a week you’ll know more than 99% of CNBC talking heads.
