Anthony Scaramucci's son bets $350 million on a 'programmable future'
Anthony Scaramucci sounds alarm on Trump and crypto money (3:44) AJ Scaramucci, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who founded collectibles platform Treasure Trove, has taken his firm Solari Capital out of stealth, Fortune reported on Thursday. The firm has deployed roughly $350 million across early-stage investing, late-stage growth and in-house incubations. Scaramucci, a Stanford MBA graduate, began his career workin at Tesla in 2013 before rotating through Google. There, he briefly worked alongside former Alphabet chief executive Eric Schmidt. He is the son of Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier who began his career at Goldman Sachs before founding SkyBridge Capital. The New York investment firm now manages billions across hedge fund and crypto strategies. Related: VanEck drops a surprising Bitcoin-bond correlation reality check The elder Scaramucci served briefly as White House Communications Director during President Trump’s first term in 2017 before being dismissed after ten days. He is well known in the Bitcoin market, and in August 2025, he warned Bitcoin could crash 40% before eventually reaching $500,000. Bitcoin peaked above $126,000 in October that year before falling roughly 50% in the months that followed. The thesis: everything becomes programmable AJ Scaramucci’s investment thesis, which he calls “Programmable Reality,” is built on the idea that as computing power keeps compounding, money, biology, intelligence and physical matter all become things that can be engineered with software-like precision. He traces the idea back to 2012, when he read Peter Diamandis’ book “Abundance” in his Stanford dorm room. Solari splits its bets across four verticals. Programmable Intelligence covers AI and compute, with positions in xAI and the AI education platform Kira Learning. Programmable Biology spans drug discovery, gene therapy and longevity. xAI is an artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk that developed the Grok chatbot and merged with SpaceX earlier this year. Popular on TheStreet Roundtable: BlackRock predicts what happens once AI starts shopping Gary Cardone made $750K without chasing Bitcoin, here’s what he bought Tesla gains $122M on Bitcoin without buying a single coin Programmable Matter covers aerospace, defense, energy and robotics. Programmable Finance, the vertical most relevant to crypto, covers blockchain infrastructure, decentralized finance and what Scaramucci calls monetary-debasement hedges. The crypto connection Within Programmable Finance, Solari’s portfolio includes Genius Terminal, a non-custodial multi-chain trading terminal, Fission Labs, which tokenizes venture-backed private companies for liquid secondary trading, and Architect Financial, which Solari describes as the first U.S. derivatives exchange built specifically for the AI economy, according to Fortune. Solari also backed American Bitcoin, the mining company co-founded by Eric Trump, contributing over $100 million to a $220 million financing round in July 2025. That bet traces back to an 11-year friendship with the founders of U.S. Bitcoin Corporation, which merged into Hut8 before spinning out American Bitcoin. Scaramucci’s crypto bets sit inside a broader, deliberately contrarian view of where value is being created. He argues that gold and Bitcoin together have generated more market capitalization since 2008 than the entire “Magnificent Seven” group of tech stocks, and that the average life expectancy of a currency is roughly 26 years. In his view, currency debasement, the gradual erosion of a currency’s purchasing power through government spending and money printing, is a defining feature of 21st-century finance, and assets like Bitcoin, gold and even rare collectibles are different expressions of the same trade: hedging against the decline of traditional money. Related: Trump's stock accounts quietly loaded up on Strategy and Tesla, filing shows
Gary Cardone made $750K without chasing Bitcoin, here's what he bought
Grant Cardone reveals why rich investors are warming up to Bitcoin through real estate (6:34) Investor Gary Cardone says he has earned about $750,000 from Strategy’s STRC preferred shares after deciding against buying Bitcoin at higher prices. In an interview, Cardone said he could have bought Bitcoin at around $98,000 a few months ago. Instead, he put his capital into STRC, the variable-rate preferred stock issued by Strategy, while it was trading close to its par value. "I’ve made $750,000 on STRC while I didn’t know what the market was doing,” he said during the interaction. Monthly payouts funded his Bitcoin buys STRC pays a dividend every month, and Cardone said his position brought in roughly $63,000 a month. Related: If you invested $1,000 in gold & Bitcoin 10 years ago, here's how much money you'd have today He said that he used that income to buy about 12 Bitcoin while keeping most of his capital away from the cryptocurrency’s sharp price swings. He added that the transaction also let him move back into cash or Bitcoin whenever he chose, instead of sitting idle while waiting for a dip. Eyes a $70,000 entry At the time of writing, Bitcoin climbed near $83,000, but Cardone is not buying into the move. He said he turned bearish over the summer because he wanted to add coins at $57,000 or lower. Most Popular on TheStreet Roundtable: JPMorgan says one asset class could soon beat gold Kevin O’Leary has a warning on Washington’s tax plans SEC Chair Atkins reveals what comes next if CLARITY Act stalls “No one should chase Bitcoin ever again,” he said, urging investors to focus on their entry price. Cardone added that he would not pay $120,000 for Bitcoin, and he sees room for a pullback into the low-to-mid $70,000 range. Bullish on Wall Street’s role His caution on price does not reflect doubts about Bitcoin’s future. Cardone welcomed Wall Street’s growing presence in the market, calling it a sign that the asset is maturing. He suggested that demand from spot Bitcoin ETFs and wealth managers could give prices firmer support during sell-offs. Over the long term, he expects Bitcoin to become more valuable as collateral, letting holders borrow against their coins instead of selling them. Related: 92-year-old burger chain's Bitcoin strategy delivers 13.8% sales jump