Solana Founder Raj Gokal Shares MINDSET SHIFTS That Built $83B Company

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Released

November 7, 2024

Duration

1h 0m

Channel

Silicon Valley Girl

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Stilo is the smart journal for personal growth. Stilo gets to know you better over time and offers recommendations tailored to the topics and people you care about: https://stilo.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=marina We have a very special guest today - Raj Gokal of Solana. He built a company that is valued at $73 billion. Solana’s coins are trading at a volume of one to three billion dollars every single day. And today we’re going to talk about his story, how he built it, how he came up with the idea, or how he joined the team and how he started the team. In this video: 00:00 - Meet Raj Gokal 02:00 - “Having a really good co-founder relationship is the most important part of starting companies” 04:29 - The smart journal for personal growth 05:40 - How did he get into crypto? 07:55 - “Any really important innovation is very volatile at first” 08:52 - What helps Raj keep going in the face of constant instability? 10:33 - “The belief that Bitcoin is valuable is a fundamental property of the asset” 14:55 - How did he start working with Solana? 18:42 - How did he find his co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko? 23:58 - “I gave Anatoly 6 months” 29:28 - How does Solana grow capital? 35:03 - What is Raj’s role at Solana now? 36:06 - “Tokens are just spam prevention” 38:27 - What is crypto device Saga? 40:16 - Why was Saga created? 43:40 - How can NFTs become a new way to communicate with an audience? Could this become a business? 48:29 - What is DePIN? 50:02 - How can you use this in business? 54:49 - What was the toughest moment for Raj while he was building Solana? 58:21 - Raj’s most important commitment *Links*: Follow my free newsletter about AI: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/ Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silicon-valley-girl/id1819090545 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZRsvu61y1C2GIc8J2gsY?si=dc7fbe168f884dc2 Instagram: instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marinamogilko X: x.com/siliconvalleymm My Companies & Products: https://marinamogilko.ru/collabyt

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Raj Gokal

  guest

  Co-founder of Solana and president at Solana Labs; serves on the board of the Solana Foundation.

• Marina Mogilko

  host

  Host and interviewer of the YouTube channel/podcast “Silicon Valley Girl.”

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, featuring Raj Gokal and Marina Mogilko, Solana Founder Raj Gokal Shares MINDSET SHIFTS That Built $83B Company explores Raj Gokal on co-founders, volatility, and Solana’s scaling bets Raj Gokal described a repeat-startup mindset in which he kept founding companies in Silicon Valley until something worked, viewing co-founder relationship quality as the most important ingredient.

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