Vlad Novakovski
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Bankless · From Harvard at 18 to Building Crypto's Fastest Exchange | Vlad, Lighter · 27 Jul 2026
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Well, that's what they wanted me to build.
They didn't have it before.
Yeah.
When did you end up at Adapar?
So, right.
So then 2012 is when I kind of took the swing to go from...
you know, Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
So initially I was at Quora for a year and a half because I was really interested in the problem space there of kind of like, I guess I'm attracted to like matching problems in general.
Like in Quora, we're like matching users with questions and answers to show them.
Adapar was a really, you know, at the time, like fast growing fintech company, right?
Kind of building, actually like aggregating data from various sources to build ways to analyze portfolios.
Like,
like a lot of Adapart was started by Joel Lonsdale right who co-founded Palantir and he's like actually like applying some of these ideas to finance
Like if you look at 2008, a lot of the reason why risk was miscalculated is because a lot of the data that should have been there in one place wasn't.
Yeah, and, you know, machine learning... So, interestingly enough, right, like, I actually worked on AI, what's now called AI, going back to 25 years ago.
So, because I did, like, in addition to the Olympiads, I also did a research competition called the Intel Science Talent Search.
That was actually a more prestigious competition than the Olympiads.
Like, that's where you get to meet the president and stuff like that.
And so, the project I did for that was essentially, like, using optics to...
instead of chips to like run neural networks faster.
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