Vlad Novakovski

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

I should finish the undergrad as quickly as possible.

And then I can actually, you can cross register.

I can literally take the same exact classes as a graduate student and be on the same exact campus.

And it's like, I was like, I might as well do that.

Because it's strictly better to be a grad student than an undergrad.

It was just an optimization problem.

Let's say I wanted to stay for seven years.

I would have spent two and a half as an undergrad and four and a half as a grad student versus the other way around, right?

Sure, okay.

It's just strictly better.

Learning how to, you know, like there was this thing they said, which sounded like cliche, but I think ended up being true, which is like learning to think in different ways.

So, you know, it was one thing in like within a certain field, like math to look at a problem within two different fields.

mathematical approaches like we're already doing that but like to think about a real world problem from like imagine thinking about a real world problem as a mathematician as a philosopher as you know biologist you know like thinking about problems in completely different ways I think was like

On the academic side, what I learned, I think on the personal side, just like met a lot of great people.

Like, I think I really learned like, again, this is cliche, but like how to network, like how do you like go into a room and like start conversations with different kinds of people, get to know them.

and need to be in in that game to really excel i think coming out of harvard well it depends on the field right if you're like i mean i guess like most scientific fields have some collaboration but obviously there are also others like that reward more like the lone wolf archetype too so it really depends on the field but yeah for for a lot of the fields the value you get out of harvard is through like a collaboration but be meeting people from other fields

So your first step out of Harvard was working with Ken Griffith.

I guess that was the original question we got.

So Ken, you know, like he had, he himself had started Citadel out of Harvard.

I believe he did.

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