Vlad Novakovski
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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
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Some of the big quant trading shops, like, you know, you see a lot of people from those competitions there, etc.
Yeah, it's a good question.
I mean, I think it goes, there are bursts, like I think the early 2000s, for whatever reason, maybe it's because we were the first to grow up with the internet.
That cohort in particular, and not just on the math and physics side, like that cohort, you know, like achieved a lot of success.
I mean, you know, the vice president is part of that cohort too, right?
Like, you know, people who've come who've done very well in politics have done very well in
other forms of business.
Like that early 2000s, I think there was a lot of great achievement that came out of that.
But that being said, like if you look back even to the 90s, like one interesting thing was the 93 team that Harvard sent to the ICPC, which is like the equivalent of the Informatics Olympiad at the college level, scene composition team of three.
So out of that three-person team, not one but two became billionaires.
Yeah.
And like in the 2000s, not now, but in the 2000s when that was a very high bar.
Yeah, yeah.
This was always like, you know, when we would hang out after the competitions and talk about
this would always come up like is different even of the people who did well we all had like our own like favorites or like the kinds of things that like we thought we grogged better than others you were particularly strong at yeah and this was always a debate like some guy would be like oh like I love
like geometry is really cool I have geometry and then like maybe somebody else will be like oh no like that like trigonometry is really cool right etc but like for me I really like the stuff where you needed like an unusual insight to solve it or if you look at the problem one way it looks like there's like
No solution or very difficult password solution.
And if you look at it like sideways, like, oh, actually, like you can solve this in two lines.
And I mean, I didn't always find those, but when I did, I think that's when I learned the most.
And that's why I got the most satisfaction out of it.
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