Haseeb Qureshi

POKER

• At age 16, Qureshi began playing online poker under the stage name INTERNETPOKERS with $50. By age 17, he won over $250,000 using game theory, risk management, behavioral economics, and data mining. 
• At age 19, he was ranked one of the 10 strongest online heads-up no-limit Hold'em players in the world, a sponsored poker pro, and a self-made millionaire, netting over $1,000,000 in a year. 
• He was sponsored by Full Tilt Poker from 2009 to 2011. 
• He privately coached many of the strongest poker players around the world, charging fees up to $1100 per hour. 
• In 2011, one of his closest friends and fellow professional poker player, José Macedo, was caught stealing from friends. Qureshi tried to hide the scandal and give Macdeo a chance to pay the victims back. However, the fraud went public and destroyed Qureshi's reputation and caused him to lose all of his sponsors.
• At age 21, he permanently retired from poker. 
  
• At age 23, he wrote How to Be a Poker Player: The Philosophy of Poker, a bestselling book that was a culmination of everything he learned in his career.

APP ACADEMY

• In 2014, Qureshi began reading about the effective altruism movement and was inspired by organizations and researchers to go into technology entrepreneurship.
• In 2015, he studied programming for two weeks and applied to App Academy, a leading 12-week programming boot camp on full-stack web development in San Francisco. Even with a 5% acceptance rate, he got into the program and moved to San Francisco.
• After graduating, he worked for App Academy as an instructor.
• He created a new course, "a/A Jump Start", which generated over 400,000 in additional revenue for App Academy via student acquisition.
• After three months, he was promoted to become Director of Product, where he managed the company's engineering team, developed partnerships with UC Berkeley and Udacity.
• In 2016, he decided to leave App Academy and join the tech industry as a software engineer.