Vlad Novakovski

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

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Okay.

So you picked an arena that you were familiar with to hire talent.

You know, we were open to talent from anywhere, but like we were specifically, you know, that was like...

It wasn't just me.

We had a recruiting team.

And what I was getting the recruiting team to learn about is these Olympiads.

It's legal to work in the U.S.

at 17 years old.

We can hire people at any age who did these Olympiads.

It's going to be high-signal hiring.

Did that thesis work out for you?

Well, certainly it worked out fairly well for Adapar, but it worked out really well for those kids.

Yeah.

And I mean, I think, you know, it worked out for those of us who Angel invested in their future projects.

Yeah.

Who were some of those kids that you worked with?

Well, one of them I co-founded Lunch Club with, right?

Scott.

Scott Wu, who is now co-founder and CEO of Cognition.

But yeah, you know, like between the Adapar intern program and, you know,

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