2008
Around 2008, Yakovenko was working at Qualcomm on Brew, a flip-phone operating system and early mobile app store.
“I was still working on Brew, which is this flip phone operating system”
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Anatoly Yakovenko
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2018
Yakovenko says the Solana project was started around the end of 2017 and the start of 2018.
“The project was started kind of end of 2017, start of 2018.”
2018
Yakovenko says the crypto funds that had committed money to Solana collapsed during the crash that followed the 2017 boom, just as the team was raising.
“the funds that were committed to us like blew up in front of our eyes”
Undated
Yakovenko says he recruited many principal-engineer-level colleagues from Qualcomm to build Solana.
“I was able to pull a lot of like kind of principal engineer level folks,”
Undated
Yakovenko says building Solana took about two and a half years, longer than the one year the team had initially expected.
“It actually took a little longer, like two and a half years to do it.”
Undated
Yakovenko describes conceiving proof of history in a late-night realization that a proof-of-work-style hash puzzle could be run slowly and sequentially to prove time passing.
“up to 4am and I had this like kind of eureka moment that puzzles similar to proof of work”
Undated
A host asks whether Yakovenko was at Dropbox when he had the proof-of-history idea, and he answers yes.
“You were at Dropbox at the time, right?”
Undated
Yakovenko gives an upper estimate of about 30 million people who hold their own crypto keys, calling it generous.
“my upper estimate for self-custody is maybe 30 million, but that's like a very generous estimate.”
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