According to CoinDesk, Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of Ark Investment, said in Peter McCormack's "What Bitcoin Did" podcast that she bought $100,000 worth of Bitcoin after reading Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper. Bitcoin ( BTC ) in dollars, when it was trading around $250 (suggested sometime in 2015). She said she didn't sell any of her initial investment, meaning she's now making about $7.6 million in profit on that investment. Cathie Wood said that while she was able to make a personal investment in Bitcoin, she could not do the same with the ARK Fund because they were and are only allowed to invest in securities. ARK was able to gain exposure to Bitcoin through the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). The ARK Next Generation Internet Fund (ARKW) currently holds about 5.9 million GBTC shares, worth about $67.4 million.