Vlad Novakovski

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

The core interim programming, I think co-founders of companies like Scale, Perplexity, Modal, as I mentioned, that's just an AI, right?

Also founders of some crypto projects too.

A bunch of them went to trading firms.

I mean, I think it was very... I mean, I think essentially we just...

got a lot of the the early stage talent in one place and they they just like yeah they they yeah and then like they learn a lot from the full-time folks but they also like form connections with each other and some of them like started companies as a result of connections there mm-hmm

Because I think from my perspective, it always would have been like that.

I mean, maybe some ebbs and flows depending on specific cycles, but...

Like for one piece of context, so when I was at Citadel in the early 2000s or the mid-2000s, I guess I should say, like 2004, 2005, like

Citadel had a great recruiting team, one of the top firms in the industry.

But when I talked to the recruiting team, they didn't know what the Olympiads were.

That's crazy to think now because now all these firms, that's all they do is focus on this talent pool.

But back then, I told them from first principles what these competitions even were.

And so it's just you had the experience because you went through it.

And so you knew that it was alpha.

I mean, I did it there.

I mean, I'm sure there are other, you know, there was a guy at early Jane Street who was an Olympiad guy, like HRT, like all these training firms and startups too, right?

Like, you know, CTO of Facebook did Olympiads.

Google, their first CTO actually also did Olympiads.

Like, so they, those people kind of slowly but surely educated their colleagues about this stuff, but it took years.

Well, I think a lot of the, like even if you just think about our conversation right now, I think it's pretty clear that connections are very important, right?

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