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Michael Batnick

Michael Batnick

American author and blogger

Aug 18, 2026

11:45
They're just going to pilot all of this stuff more for advisors and help them out.
11:49
It's a good question.
11:50
So I don't think I was all the way right.
11:51
I definitely don't think I was all the way wrong.
11:53
I do think that a lot of the work that the power planners are doing will be automated.
11:59
Not all of it, but a lot of it.
12:02
One area that I couldn't have predicted last year as far as how young people are going to be impacted by AI is this.

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21:20
Tell us about that journey.
4:32
Let's do it.
4:32
All right.
4:33
W- forget about what are they buying.
4:34
I think everybody understands the Starlink system is phenomenal.
4:37
It's a game changer.
4:39
Forget about the $32 trillion TAM or whatever they spoke about with, like, the AI opportunity.
4:44
I think for the point of view of the investor base, what's really important is the $2 trillion market cap.

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19:54
What do we make of this?
4:35
Just would love to hear you kind of riff on that.
4:37
I have lots of thoughts, obviously, on the outside money that has absolutely shaped this industry, like reshaped the industry in some ways for better and in many ways for worse.
4:48
What's different about us? Few things.
4:52
We're up to 80 something employees.
4:55
I think I have to quote our last ADV update, which, oh boy, I think it was 7 billion.
5:00
I can't remember.
5:01
We've grown since then, but that is the official updated record.

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14:27
You have to put your flag in the ground and stay
24:52
Will you ever cap the growth of the RIA business? Is there a level you think where you can get to where it's not as special as what you've already built?
25:00
I don't think we need to because we've created service tiers, and the tiers act as an organizational method to doing everything that we do really well.
25:12
So for people with zero to $250,000, we're onboarding them into a service tier that we call Liftoff.
25:20
We've been doing that for over 10 years.
25:22
The custody solution there is Betterment.
25:24
We've got advisors in the background who can help people, but it's very much automated and it's for people in the accumulation phase of life.
25:32
They don't have any real complexity.
28:47
I mean, Josh goes on CNBC.
21:13
Um, where are you on AI and youth unemployment, and where are you on AI and the bubble question?
21:20
So I think that AI is not just going to be used for better advertising for Facebook, although of course that is a huge component of it.
21:28
I do believe that it is transformative, it is going to change the world the way that the iPhone, uh, and the App Store did, in ways that we can't fathom.
21:35
We had no idea that Spotify was gonna be a thing, we had no i- idea that Uber would be a thing, that DoorDash would be a thing, and, and it goes obviously so far beyond that.
21:43
Um, so I do believe, like I am a techno optimist.
21:45
However, I also believe that from here to there the transition and rocky and, and inability of, of young people to enter the workforce is going to be dramatic.
21:55
Um, unfortunately, I do believe that AI is going to automate all of the entry level jobs.

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32:37
(laughs)
15:02
And what do you think?
15:05
I don't...
15:06
I mean, this is boring.
15:08
I genuinely don't know.
15:10
I am very excited to see.
15:12
I think that some of the numbers are starting to get a little crazy.
15:16
So NVIDIA, for example, is about to cross the entire market capitalization of the industrial sector.

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39:05
Bitcoin.

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