Cathie Wood is following Rich Dad Poor Dad's investment advice

For years, Robert Kiyosaki has framed gold, silver and, more recently, Bitcoin (BTC) as financial life rafts in a system he believes is slowly sinking under debt and currency debasement.

Now, that same philosophy is finding a surprising echo in mainstream asset management through ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood.

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In a 2025 YouTube video, the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” author revealed how his belief has guided his portfolio decisions for decades.

“Since 1964, I’ve been saving silver,” he said. “So right now, I’m trading my silver to buy more Bitcoin because the silver I was buying was at 10 cents an ounce; today, it’s $30 an ounce.”

Kiyosaki believes that assets that cannot be printed at will eventually reprice higher as fiat weakens.

Although he later refuted his own claims, the core thesis remained intact. In his mind, Bitcoin has graduated into the same category as precious metals.

Wood’s credibility in crypto stems largely from timing.

Many Wall Street figures only embraced digital assets after institutional guardrails were in place, but she backed the sector when doing so, carried reputational risk.

While she is far from giving personal finance advice, unlike Kiyosaki, in a recent episode of The Rundown podcast, she offered a rare piece of advice for investors.

“If I were a betting person…I would make a shift from gold into Bitcoin,” Wood said.

Wood argued that gold’s current price levels are difficult to justify outside periods of extreme economic stress. She drew historical examples of how gold price hikes would coincide with massive inflation.

“Gold is probably ripe for a fall. The last two times gold was anywhere near this level were during periods of massive inflation, double-digit inflation in the 1970s and early 1980s, and before that, during the Great Depression…We are not in anything like either of those two worlds, and yet gold is priced where it is today.”

Gold was trading at $5,024 per ounce at press time.

While she acknowledged that stablecoins have been fulfilling some of the use cases that Bitcoin was expected to play in emerging markets, she expects that this is not going to continue forever.

“It is not permanent. That role is more like a checking account. When people want real savings, they are going to buy Bitcoin, especially if a $1.5 million price target by 2030, our bull case, proves correct.”

Wood said the idea of Bitcoin as “digital gold” undersells the asset, arguing that it is structurally superior to gold because of its supply dynamics.

She pointed to Bitcoin’s supply growth of about 0.8% per year, which she said is expected to fall to roughly 0.4% within the next two years. By contrast, Wood said gold’s supply growth is likely to be significantly higher, noting that it has historically averaged around 1%.

With a large intergenerational wealth transfer underway, Wood added that Bitcoin is positioned to take off from current levels.

At press time, Bitcoin was trading at $69,499.42, down more than 78% since its peak of $124,000 in October 2025.

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This story was originally published by TheStreet on Feb 10, 2026, where it first appeared in the MARKETS section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.