Vlad Novakovski

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

That was when there was like a million dollar prize to come up with a better algorithm to rank movies.

So this kind of stuff like, you know, structured learning of like user data and user preferences and products to recommend, like that was a thing.

I mean, we were the first to do it in the space of knowledge at Quora.

But what was funny is that Quora actually had a lot of the things you need to build LLMs, right?

Because it was text data, unlike Spotify or Netflix.

Yeah.

Like, in principle, we could have built the first good LLM.

I mean, like, our founder joined the board of OpenAI for a recent later, right?

But, like, you know.

I mean, at the time, language models were pretty bad, though.

And so we tried using them even, like, 12 years ago.

They didn't add much alpha to the prediction model.

These companies have like interesting histories, right?

So like OpenAI was started and, you know, they had like a bunch of co-founders, right?

Like Elon funded it.

You know, it was like, I think they were working on a bunch of, it was like pretty open-ended lab, right?

Like they're working on a bunch of different things.

I mean, there was DeepMind back then.

There was Google Brain.

Anthropic was actually like, its team was interesting because some of them were actually academics up until like three years before starting a company.

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