For such an extraordinary year for everyone, the success of Kathy Wood does not seem such an amazing event. And yet. it became the first industry leader with $6.3 trillion in ETF assets that shouldn't have had any at all. She is from a generation of money managers that ordinary investors knew, such as Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett. She is not just the first woman to hold this position. She is also the honorary heroine of memes, along with Elon Musk and the Shiba Inu dog (the dogecoin cryptocurrency was named after the meme with this dog. -).
Wood's deals and her tweets affect stock prices. In social networks and forums around the world, her name is associated with technophilia, the excitement of waiting for new technological breakthroughs, whether it be robotics, genome editing or digital currencies. Some of Wood's bold predictions about Bitcoin and Tesla came true, shocking Wall Street analysts who dismissed the predictions as nonsense.