Anatoly Yakovenko

My parents were like, you have no idea.

We've been in a depression for like 80 years.

So go ahead.

They were, yeah.

I mean, they were extremely like proud that they got jobs immediately, never got any assistance, worked their entire life for like love to pay taxes.

Like these, they're like, right.

Like they are felt so blessed to be in America that they want to pay taxes.

They don't want any handouts or anything like that.

Um,

they moved to a place like the reason I think I can credit a lot of my success is that they moved to a city in like Chicago area with high property taxes because they had good schools.

So I had access to AP classes and ACTs and, you know, I was able to just on my own merit, like study and get decent grades and go to Urbana Champaign, take engineering.

That's it.

That's it from like 50 bucks a person.

That's a trajectory.

that anyone can achieve here because you have access to the best schools in the world and you don't actually need to go to Harvard to succeed.

Like UIC is an excellent engineering school, like best in the world, but it's a state school.

I think oddly, these are like two parallel lines.

Crypto is transforming finance.

And I think all financial systems are going to be rebuilt on top of crypto rails because they're cheaper and trustless.

You don't need to trust an intermediary.