Haseeb Qureshi

TECH CAREER

• Haseeb was involved in blockchain engineering at Earn.com, acquired by Coinbase, where he helped architect the firm's token launch and transition.

• He was a software engineer within the Risk Team at Airbnb, where he prevented raudulent activity on the platform.

• He also led several engineers in a full-stack project to implement a micro-authorization flow for suspicious credit cards.

• He was Director of Product at App Academy, where he instructed over 200 students across 5 total cohorts, providing code reviews and debugging assistance.

POKER CAREER

• Qureshi began playing online poker at the age of 16 with $50 and, a year later, turned it into over $100,000.

• His stage name was INTERNETPOKERS. At 17, he won over $250,000 using game theory, risk management, behavioral economics, and data mining. 

• By the age of 19, he had become one of the strongest heads-up no-limit Hold'em players in the world, a sponsored poker pro, and a self-made millionaire.

• He privately coached many of the strongest poker players around the world, charging fees up to $1100 per hour. 

• He retired from poker at 21, never playing a hand since. At 23, he wrote the bestselling poker book, How to Be a Poker Player.

EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM

• In 2014, Qureshi began reading about the effective altruism movement and was inspired by organizations and researchers to go into technology entrepreneurship.

• He created a new course, "a/A Jump Start", which generated over 400,000 in additional revenue for App Academy via student acquisition.

• In 2016, he decided to leave App Academy and join the tech industry as a software engineer. 

PHILANTHROPY

• He donated all of the money he had saved up as a poker player which amounted to about half a million dollars and started over with $10,000.

• In 2014, he became a believer in the concept of effective altruism and earning to give, pursuing a lucrative career so he can donate more to charity.

• In 2017, he became a member of the Founders Pledge and publicly committed to donating 33% of his pre-tax income to charity.

• He has also volunteered with organizations including RailsBridge, The Last Mile, National Safe Place, and Interfaith Action of Central Texas.

MEDIA & APPEARANCES

• Qureshi has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, TechCrunch, and The Block.

• He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.