About this episode
Haseeb is a managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, a cross-border crypto venture fund. He is also a programmer, writer, teacher, and effective altruist. Haseeb previously worked as a software engineer at Airbnb and as Director of Product at App Academy. Before that, he was a mental coach and wrote a book called The Philosophy of Poker. Haseeb was once considered to be among the top 10 strongest No-limit Heads-up Texas Hold’em players in the world, and was sponsored by Full Tilt Poker. Follow him on Twitter @hosseeb.
[2:18] - How Haseeb’s background prepared him for success in the crypto space
[9:08] - Lessons from life as a poker player
[19:32] - Parallels from poker to crypto and life in general
[26:35] - Haseeb’s focus on effective altruism and his reasoning for giving away almost all of his money to start over
[34:35] - Dragonfly Capital’s global focus
[39:30] - Haseeb’s thoughts on decentralization
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