Vlad Novakovski

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Bankless · From Harvard at 18 to Building Crypto's Fastest Exchange | Vlad, Lighter · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

Ah, okay.

Peter was their first VC investor.

Well, they, you know, the last venture round we did before launching a token, you know, they co-led that one.

That was Founders Fund?

Yes.

Okay.

And it was a little bit like they, you know, nowadays, you know, big companies use the terminology like startup within a startup or something.

They started within a big company.

And like, for me, building a trading desk within a larger firm was literally that, right?

That was your first experience actually building a squad and being a leader.

That's right.

And just like building a business in the sense that like,

yeah i mean we we were like you know i didn't have to set up hr or payroll or like the silly stuff yeah right so well yeah i mean it's actually all the stuff has some interesting aspects of it yes like the or like i didn't like we had obviously relationships with like prime brokers but i remember like on my first day doing that like calling like data vendors okay like who has data for you know order like l2 order book data for like this market like i was like doing that right it's not like

It was all there.

What firm was this that you worked for?

It was called Graham Capital.

So not far from where we are right now in New York.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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