Raj Gokul

Co-Founder and President, Solana Labs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gokal co-founded Solana Labs alongside Anatoly Yakovenko in late 2017, driving business operations, strategy, and ecosystem growth for the high-throughput blockchain network. Prior to crypto, he co-founded wearable glucose monitoring company Sano and served as Director of Product at digital health startup Omada Health.

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1 assertion · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Raj argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Gokul: Solana has 18M monthly active accounts, surpassing all other chains
“Yeah, right now we're at two million daily six million weeklies, and then eighteen million monthlies, which is the highest of any blockchain and passed all the other ones about 60 days ago.”
Raj Gokul Jun 20, 2022 ▶ 4:35 The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired

Everything Raj Gokul said on Acquired that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Gokul: Solana has 18M monthly active accounts, surpassing all other chains
“Yeah, right now we're at two million daily six million weeklies, and then eighteen million monthlies, which is the highest of any blockchain and passed all the other ones about 60 days ago.”
Raj Gokul Jun 20, 2022 ▶ 4:35 The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
Disclosure
Gokul: Solana reached mainnet on under $10M after ETH crash
“The first seed was a little over three million, and that was more or less enough. The next round was like 13, but a ton of it got wiped out, because most of it came in in ETH. And before we found a custodian and were able to sell any of it, a lot of that value…”
Raj Gokul Jun 20, 2022 ▶ 5:50 The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired Jun 20, 2022 37s
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