Vlad Novakovski

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

Okay, yes.

And not only is winning fun meeting other like-minded people, in the long run, that's actually the most important part of all this, is the people you meet.

Right, because this wasn't solo activity.

You were on a team.

Well, yes, but even... I mean, a lot of the competitions are individually measured, and then the country...

Once you get the international level, the countries have teams, but you just like, you know, because there's training camps, like as it was, you know, you sit around, wait for results, like you meet a lot of the people.

It's like, you know, the opportunity to meet other like minded, you know, students, but really just kids around the country.

Right.

Who did you meet?

It's funny because a lot of the, I mean, back then, these are people that I just met at the camps.

I mean, they were impressive people then, right?

Just because of their skills.

But some of them now are like shaping what we see in industry.

Like, for example, at the training camp for the US Physics Olympiad, two of the co-founders of Anthropic were there.

So I got to meet them, got to know one of them quite well, actually.

And then at the Infratix one, you know, the first CTO of Facebook was... I mean, they weren't... Right, the future CTO, yeah.

So some of the people who's also on the board of OpenAI now, right?

So, like, that's pretty interesting.

And that's just, like, people who've achieved, you know, the kind of the most well-known outcomes, but there are a bunch of others who, right?

Like, for example, like, I think if you look at people who run...

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