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If you had $1,000 to invest and you had to invest it somewhere, where would you be investing it? Well, and how would you be like the general philosophy towards wealth creation at such a stage? If you had $1,000, how would you be thinking about creating wealth for yourself?
A couple of things. Averaging into, um, either an ETF. What's an ETF? ETF, exchange traded fund. So it treats a group of stocks like one stock. So ARK is nearly 35 to 36 stocks, but you can buy them by purchasing ARK. And you can do that on your mobile phone by download. You can do it on your mobile phone, a bunch of different apps that allow you to just buy that one ETF, which means you own 35 stocks. Yes. And your team is basically choosing what those 35 stocks are. Yes. Based on your research, right? And ARK are our highest conviction stocks. They offer an exposure to all of the innovation platforms that we've talked about. Whereas ARKI here in Europe is focused primarily on artificial intelligence and robotics because we think that convergence is going to be pretty explosive. What you don't get there, you do get in ARK. We also have another very focused fund, ARKG, which is really healthcare applications of AI, and other healthcare names that we think are going to be pretty transformative in the new world as regulators really understand how important AI is going to become to discovery, research, trials, development, to diagnostic tests, and to curing disease.
Another question popped up, which is about Ethereum and these other cryptocurrencies. Do you invest in any of these others? Yes. Well, in our public funds we've put them. I don't think we can own them here in the UK yet, but in the US we have them in some of our funds. Both of them are key to the financial services revolution. So, to get people to understand and feel comfortable with that, we don't call it the crypto revolution. It's the digital assets revolution, and it's simply the internet, the financial internet. Okay. So do you believe you are more bullish on the price potential of Bitcoin than Ethereum? Yes. We think Bitcoin is the biggest idea. It serves three revolutions: a global monetary system, a new asset class, and new technology. Ethereum does not. It is part of a new asset class, but Bitcoin is going to be the biggest, and it's the most secure blockchain technology out there. What about all these others, Solana and all these other ones? Ether and Solana. So the big three are the big three. We think they'll all be successful, all three of them, Bitcoin the most. We're very interested in stablecoins, but that's just like cash. And there are millions of crypto assets out there. We think most of them die.
Is there any way to invest in stablecoins? How do you invest in them? Indirectly, right now, it is through Coinbase. They have a deal with Circle. Any revenue that Circle generates from its stablecoin, USDC, they split 50/50 in the US. Circle itself has announced that it is going public, and we're looking forward to that.
What is the psychology or mentality one has to adopt to be a good investor? It depends on what you've bought. If you buy a strategy like ours, which would be in the aggressive growth strategy, you put it in and average in over time, just like with Bitcoin, as I mentioned earlier. What does averaging in mean? Averaging in means buying a little every month, maybe every payday. I think one of my daughters was buying Bitcoin every week, but not a whole Bitcoin. She couldn't do that. A satoshi. And close your eyes. This is a long-term investment. If we're right, according to our analysis, and this is our research and our analysis, there are no promises, we can't make those. But according to our research, the technologies around which we have centered our research, and which have focused our investments, we believe will go up more than tenfold in the next five to 10 years. That's how much explosive growth we have ahead of us as these technologies converge and create incredible opportunities for investors.
I'm hearing a lot of people, as they get into investing, of course they have their day jobs, but once they have accrued enough, they're making choices about dialing down their day jobs and spending more time investing. You asked what some of the jobs of the future are going to be. I think individual investors are going to be providing for themselves if they are investing on the right side of change. So if you're right, that means that by investing, your fund would make roughly a 1,000% return. Yes. No promises, but this is all based on research, and you can find it in our Big Ideas. Big Ideas 2025 is on our website, arkinvest.com. You can find a lot more information about our funds on arkfunds.com. And I should probably say this is not investing advice. It is not. I want you to do your own research. Do your own research. You can lose all of your money. Yes, you can lose all of it if you decide to do any of these things. That's why we keep ARK Invest separate from the fund site, because that's just research: learn what you're investing in, or learn why we've invested the way we have. That's what we do all day long. We try to help. First of all, we're doing the research and we are making the investments, but I think one of the most important things we do is communicate what we're doing and why we're doing it. If you love the Diary of a CEO brand and you watch this channel, please do me a huge favor and become part of the 15% of viewers on this channel who have hit the subscribe button.