Vlad Novakovski

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

The stroke of genius problems.

Well, I guess, Gene, you know, I think it's more of just... Or thinking outside of the box.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Thinking creatively.

Right, exactly.

I mean, you didn't, you know, these problems, you don't have to be, you know, Einstein.

You're not thinking of something that no one's ever thought of before, but you do have to think outside the box.

So we were in the same high school, a school called Thomas Jefferson, which was a math and science high school in Northern Virginia.

Yeah, we were the two lads.

I was, you know, Russian immigrant.

She was a Bulgarian immigrant.

Our paths crossed more later in life.

Like, I mean, we, you know, we were at the high school, of course.

I mean, he started doing math actually more deeply in undergrad and then graduate.

He was a PhD student under Terry Tao, who was probably like the best mathematician in the world, you know, UCLA.

So anyway, so then he got into high frequency training later as I did.

So our paths actually got closer kind of later on.

For me, I saw it a little bit because I used to think of it like, okay, if you like stack rank everybody, like...

you know like the people like well let's say you were like whatever metric you come up with like you stack rank everyone let's say in the country right like whoever the top seed is second seed third seed if you like and that ranking doesn't change that much from

one year to the next if you i thought okay well if you project that out 20 years it's probably going to be not about the same then so like these are the people who will contribute and now i think the the thing that was different is like i think because because these competitions the people who organize them are academics so you're the default career path is academia so i think like

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