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The FYI - For Your Innovation Podcast offers an intellectual discussion on recent developments across disruptive innovation—driven by research, news, controversies, companies, and technological breakthroughs. Hosted by ARK Invest, ARK and guests provide a unique perspective on how to best understand disruptive innovation.
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- 2 days ago1h 35m
The Call After The Calls: SpaceX And Tesla
Elon Musk put a $1 trillion revenue number on SpaceX, and the sell side has been staring at its models ever since. "Roughly five times wrong relative to what Elon said 2028 revenue could be," says Alex Potter of Piper Sandler. "That's absurd."ARK hosted the call after the calls: a live post-earnings breakdown of SpaceX and Tesla with buy side and sell side in the same room. Cathie Wood, Brett Winton, Tasha Keeney, Daniel Maguire and Sam Korus of ARK Invest are joined by Alex Potter of Piper Sandler, Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research, and Aaron Burnett of Mach33.The group works through the numbers that moved them most: 20 gigawatts of power and cooling lined up for terrestrial compute, one to two Starship launches per week, 2 million driverless miles in eight months, and a 75% full self-driving attach rate on new Tesla deliveries. They debate where the money for all of it comes from, why Pierre Ferragu believes the vision-only approach to autonomy has cleared proof of concept, how Starmind and orbital compute could change the cost curve, and whether the SpaceX and Tesla merger that Brett Winton puts at 90% odds within 18 months actually clears the Tesla shareholder base.They close on the bear case. Debt markets, regulation, China, execution risk over decades, and the possibility that the merger never happens at all.
- 2 days ago34 min
Ramp's Economist Found Cracks In The AI Thesis | The Brainstorm 156
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Ara Kharazian, lead economist at Ramp, joins Sam and Brett with data from 80,000 businesses and over $275 billion in annual spend. His latest research, “Cracks in the AI Thesis,” finds AI spend is extraordinarily concentrated, with 1% of businesses driving 80% of it, and that those heaviest adopters are now slowing their spend even as token volumes keep climbing. Brett pushes back hard: three months is not a trend, prices have halved over the same window, and the gap between the median firm at $15 per employee per month and the top 1% at $7,000 to $10,000 is the whole story. The debate runs from revenue quality and venture capital (VC) -backed concentration risk to where spend could actually land five years out.Key Points From This Episode:Why falling prices can make AI spend look like it is slowing while usage keeps risingWhether concentration in VC-backed buyers is a revenue quality problem for the frontier labsWhat the gap between the median firm and the top 1% could mean for competition and private equityIf you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financialLearn more about Public: https://public.com/Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
- 1 weeks ago32 min
Anthropic’s S-1, Meta’s $90B, And Elon’s Warning Call | The Brainstorm 155
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett open the Anthropic S-1, maybe the most impressive twelve months of revenue growth in corporate history, and debate whether a major AI-enabled cyberattack would be good or bad for the frontier labs. Then Nick breaks down Meta’s $90 billion raise, the filing suggesting Zuckerberg could raise $700 billion before losing voting control, and why the math on monetizing Muse may require Meta to build a bank. Finally, Elon Musk is publicly warning of an extinction event for neoclouds with chips they cannot plug in, and the team asks who that warning is really for.Key Points From This Episode:What the Anthropic S-1 reveals about gross margins, research and development (R&D) efficiency, and the risk factors everyone is quotingWhy Meta’s consumer agent math may not reach Instagram-level Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) without owning paymentsWhy compute now rents above $50B per gigawatt, and what that squeeze likely does to the neocloudsIf you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financialLearn more about Public: https://public.com/Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
- 2 weeks ago29 min
The Real Reason Tesla Announced The Roadster | The Brainstorm 154
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam and Brett cover a week of exciting developments. Brett was at the Tesla Roadster unveil in person and argues the event was primarily marketing for a prospective SpaceX Tesla merger, pointing to the swapped order of the earnings calls, SpaceX executives quietly following Tesla accounts over the weekend, and the window a shareholder vote would require. Then to CoreWeave, whose bonds are trading at a fifteen percent yield after being raised at nine, with no visible softening in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) demand to explain it. Brett’s suspicion is that a leveraged fund is being liquidated rather than anything fundamental breaking. Plus Anthropic’s reported numbers, why growth decelerating to 340% may still be the most remarkable twelve months of business performance ever recorded, and the non-consensus case that the closed labs are pulling away rather than getting caught.Key Points From This Episode:Why Brett reads the Roadster unveil as potential merger marketing, and what a combined SpaceX Tesla could unlock for both shareholder basesWhy CoreWeave’s bonds are trading at 15% while GPU demand shows no sign of softeningWhy having the frontier model is what lets you build the cheap one, and why trading down to open weight may be the expensive choiceIf you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financialLearn more about Public: https://public.com/Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
- 3 weeks ago33 min
Is SpaceX Coming For Your Phone Bill? | The Brainstorm 153
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett open on OpenAI’s release of 722 mathematical proofs and the one subject conspicuously missing from it, cryptography. Brett argues the nearer term threat to crypto is AI rather than quantum computing, and that the danger sits not in the cryptographic primitives but in everything built around them, from self-custody hardware to the exchanges now holding enormous honeypots. He also suggests quantum-safe encryption may be the more vulnerable life raft, and that a scrambled bank ledger could be far more disruptive than stolen coins. Then SpaceX reportedly pays $8 billion for Nextel’s old spectrum and wins Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for 15,000 direct-to-cell satellites, turning a service that was going to clip a dollar off your phone bill into a bid for the entire bill. Plus why SpaceX collects far more per gigawatt of compute than the neoclouds can.Key Points From This Episode:Why AI, not quantum computing, may be the nearer term threat to crypto, and why quantum-safe encryption could be more vulnerable than assumedHow SpaceX plans to turn home Starlink dishes into cell towers, and why the cellular business likely depends on selling broadband firstWhy SpaceX collects $30 to $40 billion per gigawatt on short term compute deals while the neoclouds settle for far lessIf you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financialLearn more about Public: https://public.com/Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
- Oct 7, 202633 min
Starship Reached Orbit. Here's the $1B-Revenue-Per-Launch Math | The Brainstorm 152
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett work through OpenAI DevDay, where one of the most interesting announcements was the one that never shipped. Ultra Ultra Fast did not reach public availability because the inventory was reportedly sold out to Jane Street, which is paying something like $200 billion per gigawatt for it, several times what Anthropic pays to rent capacity from SpaceX AI. Brett argues speed is becoming its own axis of competition alongside intelligence, and that the pull of enterprise money keeps starving consumer agents of compute. Nick covers Robinhood’s Hood Summit, where retail traders got agentic accounts, paid data connectors, and backtesting, and asks whether that is democratization or lambs walking into a Goliath. Then Starship reaches orbit carrying commercial satellites, and the team sizes up a launch business that could add a billion dollars of annual revenue per flight.Key Points From This Episode:Why Jane Street is paying roughly $200 billion per gigawatt, and what speed as a competitive edge potentially does to AI pricingWhether Robinhood handing agentic trading to retail is democratization or fodder for high frequency tradersWhy full Starship reusability could take launch costs below $100 per kilogram, and what that could mean for revenue per launchIf you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financialLearn more about Public: https://public.com/Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
- Oct 1, 202647 min
Building A Nuclear Plant That Can’t Melt Down
In this episode of FYI, Daniel Maguire and Tasha Keeney speak with J. Clay Sell, CEO of X-energy, about the company’s approach to reinventing nuclear power with advanced small modular reactors. Sell explains X-energy’s TRISO fuel and helium-cooled reactor design, why the company believes safety and repeatable construction can drive nuclear costs lower, and how regulatory reform is accelerating deployment. They also discuss X-energy’s partnership with Amazon, the role of AI in nuclear engineering and licensing, competition with China, supply-chain constraints, and Sell’s vision for making nuclear power abundant, affordable, and easy to buy.Key Points From This Episode:00:00:00 Highlights and intro 00:02:58 Clay Sell's background and X-energy's goal of reinventing how nuclear is deployed 00:05:23 Why a pebble-bed, high-temperature gas-cooled design — and moving nuclear down the cost curve 00:10:09 TRISO fuel, helium coolant, and why a reactor that can't melt down needs fewer safety systems 00:16:44 Building a fuel business alongside the reactor business, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license for commercial fuel fabrication 00:20:01 Why Sell’s believes regulation is no longer the main constraint — construction execution is 00:24:00 Amazon's commitment to five gigawatts, and why X-energy is chasing nth-of-a-kind scale over being first 00:28:37 Earning community support and social license for plants and data centers 00:31:53 Applying AI to nuclear development with Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA, Idaho National Lab, and the Department of Energy (DOE)00:38:40 Competing with China on advanced reactors, supply-chain buildout, and nuclear as a routine option within a decadeEditing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)
- Sep 30, 202632 min
Zuckerberg Admits He Got It Wrong | The Brainstorm 151
In this episode of The Brainstorm, Sam, Nick, and Brett unpack Meta Connect, where Muse quietly replaced the metaverse as Zuckerberg’s vision for the company. Nick walks through the hardware spread, from audio-only Ray-Bans with no camera, to a 100 gram VR headset at $1,300 that outspecs the Vision Pro at a third of the price, to the Muse Charm, a Tamagotchi-style agent device shipping for the holidays. Brett argues the real target was never virtual reality (VR) but Apple, and that loosening the smartphone’s grip is worth more to Meta than any single device. Nick counters that the three things people actually do on their phones are untouched by any of it, and that Meta should just build a phone. Plus whether consumer agents arrived a graphical processing unit (GPU) generation too early, and why owning the consumer may be the best dollar Meta can spend and the one Wall Street would hate most.Key Points From This Episode:Why Meta’s $1,300 headset outspecs the Vision Pro, and why that may not matter if nobody wants VRHow agent devices erode Apple’s ecosystem lock-in without ever replacing the smartphoneWhy consumer agents may take five years to monetize, and which balance sheets can fund the gapIf you know ARK, you know we focus on long-term innovation. But that doesn’t mean we ignore breaking news. Every day, we debate the latest developments in tech and markets. Now, we’re bringing those conversations to you in “The Brainstorm,” a co-production from ARK, WOLF, and Public. Tune in weekly for our quick takes on what’s shaping innovation right now.Learn more about WOLF: https://wolf.financialLearn more about Public: https://public.com/Disclosure: http://arkinv.st/39rzF94
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