Vlad Novakovski
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Bankless · From Harvard at 18 to Building Crypto's Fastest Exchange | Vlad, Lighter · 27 Jul 2026
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Yes.
I finished high school at 16 and Harvard at 18.
So, yeah, I was.
You know, there's like, you can get credit for one year from, because I took a bunch, you know, like we were competing on a lot of things, right?
Including how many APs you took.
Like I'm talking about among that competitive cohort.
So like, I mean, there's one can do 17 APs.
I think I did like 12.
So that's enough to get one year of credit at Harvard.
And then I just like, instead of taking five classes a semester, I took six to get another semester.
Well, that was more of a competition between me and myself.
No one else was really trying to do that.
I mean, I looked at it, like, I talked about thinking outside of the box, right?
Like, the way I looked at it was, you know, assuming I, these days, probably someone like me would have dropped out and gone to, like, you know,
start you know build a protocol or build an AI model or something but back then that was rare like the only case we really knew about who did that was Bill Gates right so I mean and then of course one of us in that cohort did it you know with Zuck but like right Zuck hadn't done it yet because right okay but like
But anyway, like, so that wasn't really a path I was considering.
Right.
And so it was like, okay, well, like I might do something in the industry, but if I'm going to stay in school, the way I look at it is like, it's strictly better to be a grad student than an undergrad.
Cause you get undergrad, you have paid them grad student, they pay you.
So I was like,
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