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Fears are overblown that AI will severely disrupt SaaS companies, the co-CEO of US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said Tuesday at Semafor World Economy in Washington, DC.
“There’s always a certain set of companies that get disrupted by technology and that has continued to happen,” Arjun Sethi said. “I also don’t think there are companies today that aren’t run by software in some ways, and so today we’re seeing AI just proliferating at a faster and faster pace.”
Kraken confidentially filed for an initial public offering late last year. An investment round in April valued the San Francisco-based platform at $13.3 billion, down from a $20 billion peak in late 2025.
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Sethi said the company’s aim is to help its customers make the kinds of sophisticated trades and directional bets that otherwise would be available only to professional investors.
“What they want at the end of the day is what Citadel and Jane Street have, or JPMorgan has, and they want it accessible to them,” Sethi said. “That’s our mission: How do we make all these products open? We want to be able to help enable what you want to do with your own capital.”