Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Toly on the biggest challenge in starting Solana:
"For any founder, I think getting a lead on that first major check-in is probably the biggest hurdle and vast majority of companies fail at that stage. It basically took me 1,000 meetings...
You're trying to convey information that is as succinct as possible. And then you're trying to, in that 10-30 minute conversation, you have to tease out, what does this person already understand about crypto? Because you don't want to repeat what they already know.
How can you explain the specific problem you're solving and its impact in the shortest amount of time? And kind of give them that vision that the world is going to change in a way that this idea that is very much up in the air and not super well-defined will crystallize into like a $10 billion or $100 billion company."
–Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on the New Economies podcast with Ollie Forsyth
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/HCW2ASm5Kdg?si=BGebhO_2qFZH6xVe
Toly on the biggest challenge in starting Solana:
"For any founder, I think getting a lead on that first major check-in is probably the biggest hurdle and vast majority of companies fail at that stage. It basically took me 1,000 meetings...
You're trying to convey information that is as succinct as possible. And then you're trying to, in that 10-30 minute conversation, you have to tease out, what does this person already understand about crypto? Because you don't want to repeat what they already know.
How can you explain the specific problem you're solving and its impact in the shortest amount of time? And kind of give them that vision that the world is going to change in a way that this idea that is very much up in the air and not super well-defined will crystallize into like a $10 billion or $100 billion company."
–Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on the New Economies podcast with Ollie Forsyth
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/HCW2ASm5Kdg?si=BGebhO_2qFZH6xVe
