Vlad Novakovski

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

Obviously, we weren't thinking about Facebook and Anthropic and OpenAI.

We were thinking more like, okay, these people are probably going to become Harvard and MIT professors down the road in their field.

So how exactly they applied their skills was not something anyone was really thinking about.

But yeah.

Well, one thing that I realized at some point around then is like, I really like data.

And that's the thing is that

You would think, well, yeah, like numbers, data, of course, but actually the competitions don't really involve data.

The only, out of the competitions I described, the only one that does is the experimental physics one where you're actually dealing with the real world data, right?

And the funny thing about that was like,

When I was training, I didn't do that well in the experiment part.

I would always, like, be the first at the training camp in the US on the theory, and then I would, like, not do that well in the experiment.

I would hope that I would still make the top five even with that.

But the actual international one, like, I actually had, like, a pretty bad day on theory.

Jet lag, whatever, I don't know.

But...

And the experimental one, I was ranked second in the world.

And so overall, I still got a silver.

So that was kind of the start of like, I mean, OK, I actually really like this like data real world stuff.

And that, I think, led to doing more with applied sciences later on, like economics, finance, trading and kind of so on and so forth.

You met Ken Griffin sometime in your teenage years, correct?

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