# Haseeb Qureshi

> Haseeb Qureshi is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital, one of crypto's largest VC firms with $4B+ AUM. A former professional poker player who turned $50 into seven figures by age 19, he walked away from the game, gave away his earnings, taught himself to code at a bootcamp, worked at Airbnb, then bet everything on crypto. He is one of the most distinctive voices in Web3 - part philosopher, part strategist, part contrarian - known for rigorous long-form essays, sharp market predictions, and an improbable career arc that no resume template could contain.

- **Role:** Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital
- **Organizations:** Dragonfly Capital, MetaStable Capital, App Academy, Airbnb, Earn.com, Founders Pledge, Crypto Giving Pledge
- **From:** Texas, USA
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, English and Philosophy, Liberal Arts University (undisclosed), Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp, App Academy
- **Known for:** Co-founded Dragonfly Capital, managing ~$4 billion in crypto assets, Ranked top 10 globally in heads-up no-limit Hold'em online poker by age 19, Earned $1M+ in a single year of professional poker

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Started playing online poker at age 16 with $50
- **2008** — Turned $50 into $100,000; ranked top 10 globally in heads-up no-limit Hold'em by age 17-19
- **2009** — Earned over $1,000,000 in a single year; sponsored by Full Tilt Poker as 'DogIsHead'
- **2013** — Published 'How to Be a Poker Player: The Philosophy of Poker' - #1 Amazon poker bestseller; quit poker permanently
- **2014** — Donated $75,000 to charity and $500,000 in assets to parents; moved to San Francisco
- **2015** — Attended App Academy coding bootcamp; became an instructor after 8 weeks; rejected by 40+ companies
- **2016** — Joined Airbnb as a software engineer on the anti-fraud/Risk team
- **2017** — Joined Earn.com as blockchain engineer; committed to Founders Pledge (33% of income to charity)
- **2018** — Joined MetaStable Capital as General Partner; led investments in Avalanche, NEAR Protocol, Algorand, Starkware
- **2019** — Co-founded Dragonfly Capital with Bo Feng; raised initial fund
- **2022** — Dragonfly raised $650M fund; merged with MetaStable Capital
- **2023** — Speaker at Consensus 2023; Dragonfly AUM reaches ~$4B
- **2025** — Published widely-cited 2026 crypto predictions; speaker at Consensus Hong Kong 2026

## Achievements

- Co-founded Dragonfly Capital, managing ~$4 billion in crypto assets
- Ranked top 10 globally in heads-up no-limit Hold'em online poker by age 19
- Earned $1M+ in a single year of professional poker
- Published 'How to Be a Poker Player' - #1 Amazon poker bestseller for 6 months
- Early investor in Avalanche, NEAR Protocol, Algorand, and Starkware
- Overcame 40+ job rejections to receive offers from Google, Airbnb, and Uber
- Became App Academy instructor after only 8 weeks as a student
- Contributed to Earn.com's Ethereum codebase before Coinbase acquisition
- Founders Pledge member since 2017 - committed 33% of income to charity
- Regular speaker at Consensus and major crypto conferences
- Active contributor to TechCrunch, CoinMarketCap Academy, and personal blog

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Speaker at Consensus Hong Kong 2026
- **2025-12** — Published 2026 crypto market predictions including Bitcoin $150K target, stablecoin 60% surge forecast
- **2025-12** — Appeared on 'The Chopping Block' year-end podcast discussing 2025 crypto winners and losers
- **2023-04** — Speaker at Consensus 2023 in Austin
- **2022-08** — Dragonfly raises $650M fund and merges with MetaStable Capital

## Links

- Website: https://haseebq.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imhaseeb/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/hosseeb
- GitHub: https://github.com/haseeb-qureshi
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HaseebQureshi

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Last updated: 2026-04-30