Vlad Novakovski

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

So that's probably the fastest anyone's gone from like being an academic to like building a great business.

So I think I got a lot of the big picture, right?

Like that...

AI was going to be big and investing in AI first companies was going to be a thing.

And so like the exact path that took, I don't think I would have predicted it or I don't know if anyone predicted like the fact that

Because even within OpenAI, like, the LLM stuff was not, like, I remember they gave a presentation in 2018 to the startup.

We were part of this group called South Park Commons, and we were using AI for what we were building at the time, right?

Which was Lunch Club, like, matching, again, matching problem, like, kind of matching people with other people for professional connection.

and anyway so there were all these like presentations people gave either people who were part of our startup community or external guests right so like the open ai guys gave a presentation was actually dario who did it he was still at open ai back then right and so they were talking about the stuff that where they were competing with deep mind on like playing video games and you're like i'm not a video game person and so i thought okay this is interesting but like

this is not exactly the application of AI that I'm excited about.

The reality is that they were working on that kind of stuff.

They had like two guys on their team who were doing this LLM stuff.

Like even with an open ad, that wasn't their main thing.

And then they found some application that like was phase shift different than, like I think when they went from like GPT-1 to GPT-2, it was pretty big.

Like if you're in the field, it all feels iterative, right?

It's like the stuff gets better and better.

But for it to be interesting to the consumer, it was more of a step function.

Because, like, I guess when I first...

Got a sense that this was going to be a big consumer product was probably like two years.

I had like... In late 2021, I remember some of our interns were like, you know, we don't really do homework anymore.

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