Countersignal Podcast

Sarah Zhang

What are young people thinking about?

  1. 29/11/2025

    $7M App at 13, EigenCloud ($10B AUM) at 15, O1 Visa at 16| Gajesh Naik

    My friend Gajesh has the craziest life story ever. Just read the timestamps: 00:00 - Turning 18 02:31 - Spending Ages 7–12 Coding Every Day 08:31 - Mahabharata, RadhaKrishna & Realizing There’s More Than Money (Moha) 12:35 - Growing Youtube Channel to 1M Views & 15k Subs in 3 Months 14:10 - Detach From Money & Status 15:27 - How Gajesh Got Into Crypto at 12 18:31 - Building a DeFi App With $7M TVL at 13 20:17 - Why He Didn’t Get Corrupted by Money 22:42 - How Gajesh Moved to the Bahamas with FTX at 14 (pt 1) 25:44 - “Dropping Out” in Middle School 26:52 - Becoming a Micro-Celebrity in India28:11 - Handling Hate, Trolls & Jealousy as a 13-Year-Old 33:36 - How Gajesh Moved to the Bahamas with FTX at 14 (pt 2) 37:13 - Daily Life in the FTX Penthouse (Wake, Code, 2 A.M. Sleep) 38:09 - FTX’s Wild Portfolio: 7% of Robinhood, 10% of Anthropic 40:36 - Why Gajesh Stayed in Crypto After FTX & Chose EigenCloud 42:54 - Building Humanity’s Coordination Engine & Trust Marketplace 51:02 - Leaving ~$5M of Equity, Not in Crypto Just for Money 54:02 - Does Gajesh Regret Not Doing AI Early? 54:56 - Bearish on College Dropouts?? 01:00:52 - Epistemic Humility 01:16:02 - You Get Creativity Is Through Freedom, Reflections on India 01:18:03 - What Life Success Means, Who Inspires Gajesh, Life Paths to Emulate Follow Gajesh: https://x.com/gajesh Follow Countersignal Podcast: https://link.me/sracha Thank you to my partners: Succinct: Pioneering zero-knowledge proofs to revolutionize blockchain scalability (https://www.succinct.xyz/) Kalshi: The go-to platform for trading real-world events with real money (https://kalshi.com/)

    1h 29m
  2. 05/11/2025

    What To Do with My Life | Meow, Jupiter Exchange CEO

    This was the craziest episode I’ve ever filmed. Literally just crashed out the whole episode, so fun. Thank you Meow! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:46 Welcome to the Schizo Podcast 1:28 What makes you think you’re doing something with your life? 4:31 What makes you think you’re not fake? 5:30 Society makes you feel like you’re not doing anything 7:05 Being at the bottom of the valley and climbing to the top of the mountain 11:38 Tech Roast Show 17:50 Your feelings are valid and invalid (+ gaslighted by Meow) 20:15 Solve the fucking problem 24:26 Everything you're going through is the price you pay for what you do 26:47 Jupiter Exchange never followed the traditional path 36:00 How can you still have fun 38:28 The higher level you go the higher pain you feel 40:37 How do you know what you want 42:24 No one knows what they’re doing 48:58 Meditating 49:49 Just remember you are a piece of shit Follow Meow: Twitter: https://x.com/weremeow Follow Countersignal: Twitter: https://x.com/countersignalpd Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@srachasaucee Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/srachasaucee Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3R1CazIaPwa6 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countersignal-podcast/id1832753373 Thank you to my partners: Succinct: https://www.succinct.xyz/ - Pioneering zero-knowledge proofs to revolutionize blockchain scalability. Kalshi: (https://kalshi.com/) - The go-to platform for trading real-world events with real money.

    51 min

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