Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
“It’s actually very hard to build a company during a bull market, especially in crypto, because you have so much distorted signal. You don’t know who your power users are, what features are actually important to your product and growth.
But during a bear market, if you have even like 10, 20 users that are dedicated users that are constantly using your product... if you hyper understand what value your product brings to them and optimize it and keep making it better week over week, that’s where you’ll start seeing massive acceleration during the bull market.”
— Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on the New Economies podcast with Ollie Forsyth
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/HCW2ASm5Kdg?si=BGebhO_2qFZH6xVe
“It’s actually very hard to build a company during a bull market, especially in crypto, because you have so much distorted signal. You don’t know who your power users are, what features are actually important to your product and growth.
But during a bear market, if you have even like 10, 20 users that are dedicated users that are constantly using your product... if you hyper understand what value your product brings to them and optimize it and keep making it better week over week, that’s where you’ll start seeing massive acceleration during the bull market.”
— Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on the New Economies podcast with Ollie Forsyth
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/HCW2ASm5Kdg?si=BGebhO_2qFZH6xVe
