Vlad Novakovski

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600 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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

I was like, what do you mean?

I'm like, this GPT-2 is actually good enough to do our homework.

I was like, that's... Even just that is a big market, right?

Yeah, I was like... Even if that's all it is, I was like, this is... Like there's some product market fit there.

Like this stuff is not just pure research anymore.

But like that's like when I first...

thought, okay, this stuff was going to work out.

Because there's a lot of, even within AI, right?

Like even within what's used now, there's like generative video images, like all these things are quite different.

So Adapar, as I was saying, was like the fintech company that Joe Lonsdale co-founded that brought together a lot of financial data and like you can understand your portfolio, like run analytics, run reports.

What I wanted to also do there is to use AI to think about like what should be in your portfolio.

At the time, the tech wasn't ready for that.

So it was more around like understanding what it is now versus what it should be, but also very, very important function because if you don't know what's in your portfolio now, you think, well, why would you not know?

Well, because if you have many layers of like, like maybe somebody owns Apple stock directly, but they also own an SPV.

They may also own a mutual fund that has Apple, like the correlations are actually not obvious.

Well, you know, it wasn't my idea.

You know, Joe was hiring interns from day one.

I mean, they had interns at Palantir.

So the idea to hire smart interns was not new.

What was new that I brought to the table was that we should source them from the Olympians.

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