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Inside the Solana Story: Near-Death Brushes and a Need for Speed (with Solana)

web3 with a16z crypto

Andreessen Horowitz

Gaming, Blockchain, Web 3, Blockchains, Open Source, Business, Decentralization, Visual Arts, Computer Science, Ownership, Art, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Cypherpunk, Web 3.0, Music, Internet, Cryptography, Crypto, Computing, Web3, Innovation, Distributed Computing, Culture, Public Goods, Creator Economy, Arts, Technology

4.466 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Solana cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko shares the origin and evolution of Solana; what sets the chain's culture, values, and tech apart; how it has gotten to where it is today (despite several near-death brushes); and much else in conversation with a16z General Partner Ali Yahya.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Web 3 with A16Z.

0:06.2

Today's episode features Solana co-founder Anatoly YakaVanko in conversation with A16Z general partner, Ali Yaya, recorded live at our CSX Crypto Startup Accelerator program earlier this year.

0:18.8

Anatoly shares the origin story of Solana from a late-night

0:21.9

eureka moment to thousands of investor meetings and several near-death startup experiences.

0:26.8

He talks about what it took to get the network off the ground, how his engineering

0:30.2

background at Qualcomm shaped its design, and why a need for speed gave Solana its edge.

0:35.7

They also get into developer culture, engineering tradeoffs, and what differentiates

0:40.0

Salana's approach to building, including its willingness to ship, iterate, and rethink

0:44.6

everything, including most recently its consensus algorithm.

0:48.5

As a reminder, none of the content should be taken as investment, business, legal, or tax advice.

0:54.2

Please see A16Z.com slash disclosures for more important information, including a link

0:59.2

to a list of our investments.

1:06.0

Hey, everyone.

1:09.3

Hey, guys.

1:10.1

Thanks for joining us. For guys. Thanks for joining us.

1:11.3

For sure.

1:12.2

Thanks for having you.

1:13.1

Great to have you.

1:14.9

I don't know if you remember when we met.

1:17.7

I think it was in Berkeley, one of the events.

1:21.5

Yeah, exactly.

1:22.1

It was 2017.

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