Vlad Novakovski

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600 appearances 1 recordings 1 series 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 podcast

He graduated.

He wasn't a dropout.

I think he graduated, but he was running the fund out of his dorm room in like 1988, 1989, like 15 years before I was there.

And,

So I think he, once he got to know my background, I mean, I first interviewed with the firm like everybody else, but then, you know, they kind of, you know, he got to know my background and spent a lot of time and convinced me to join.

Well, I was doing trading from my dorm room.

I was trying to be someone like Ken or Jim Simons when I was there.

So, I mean, it didn't work out that well.

Yeah, were you good at it?

Like trading...

as a college student, not particularly, I mean, I have found some strategies that worked okay.

And then Ken actually told me like, yeah, these strategies aren't as good as like, like some of these strategies used to work, but they don't work anymore because I'm arbitraging them away.

Because I had some good back tests, but in real trading, it was like close to zero.

That's fine.

I mean, I wasn't trying to... I was just trying to find interesting stuff to trade, right?

Right, right, right.

Is that why he hired you?

Well, I think that part of his rationale for why I should join is that it's much better to find these sources of alpha on a team versus doing it on your own, which I think is correct.

Why is that correct?

When you're finding alpha, you have to bring a lot of different ideas together

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