Oct 20, 2022
1) Research Ecosystem
2) ARK's Brand
3) Long-Term Investment Horizon
4) Access to Everyday Investors
"We've brought a very different value, and we really categories or categorize our value into two main two main buckets. The first is our long-term time horizon, the evergreen structure in our public equities. And so, going back to the point that we made at the very beginning of this conversation, we want to be a permanent capital partner to the best companies in the world and really support them not only from now until they go public in two or three years but well beyond their IPO and into their public life.
And because of this fund structure, we're allowed to do that. We can stay with the best companies well beyond their public life. We don't have an arbitrary time horizon, and we have significant, you know, significant capital in our public equity funds that we can use to really support the best companies as they go public and continue their journey into public life.
And so that's number one, that's very different. As Max mentioned earlier, most venture investors can't buy public equities. And so there, you know, when a company goes public, they sort of wave goodbye and say good luck on your journey, and we can be that long-term capital partner. And that's opened up some really interesting opportunities. The second is really our brand and our research ecosystem.
Because of our brand and because of the research that we do, we have a very large following. We have millions of followers on Twitter. We have a very popular podcast. We're in the media quite frequently. We publish blogs that really are considered thought leadership and specific technology areas. And so, to the extent companies want to lean in and partner with us in terms of helping tell their story, we could do that in a very compelling way."