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- Cathie Wood is a star stock-picker and founder of $60 billion (assets) ARK Invest, which invests in innovations like self-driving cars and genomics.
- After stints at other investment firms, Wood created ARK in 2014 hoping to package active stock portfolios in an ETF format.
- Her flagship $23 billion (assets) Ark Innovation Fund has returned an average of nearly 45% annually over the past five years.
- Wood studied economics at USC under Art Laffer, the inventor of the Laffer Curve, which theorizes the tie between tax rates and tax revenue.
- Wood is one of the biggest boosters of Elon Musk's Tesla. She predicts the electric car company will someday be valued at over $3 trillion.
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 68
- Source of Wealth
- money management, Self Made
- Residence
- Wilton, Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
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