#59 - Haseeb Qureshi

Haseeb Qureshi is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a crypto investment firm with roughly $4 billion under management. Dragonfly recently closed its fourth venture fund at $650 million.

Prior to Dragonfly, Haseeb was a General Partner at MetaStable Capital, the crypto fund co-founded by Naval Ravikant and later acquired by Dragonfly. Before venture, he was a software engineer at Airbnb and Earn.com, and before that a top-10 globally ranked professional poker player.

We spoke about digital dollars, nationalized banks, bubbles and speculation, Iran and BlackRock, jaywalking, and beanie babies.

0:00 – Intro

1:23 – What Happened to Crypto?

3:18 – Stablecoins and Escape Velocity

7:04 – Bitcoin, Gold, and the Generational Trade

10:34 – War and Stores of Value

15:06 – Retail, Nvidia, and Capital Flight

18:23 – Stablecoins 101

20:00 – Eurodollars, Venmo, and AI Agents

23:00 – Dollarization and the Black Market

25:28 – Banks, Airwaves, and the Balance of Power

31:20 – Too Many Currencies

36:11 – Institutions and Cypherpunks

40:08 – Iran and BlackRock

41:00 – Speculation and Bubbles

43:12 – Prediction Markets and the Overton Window

51:04 – Skin in the Game and the Rational Voter

54:06 – Staying in Crypto

57:13 – When Crypto VC Ends

58:57 – What Would Change Haseeb’s Mind on Crypto

1:03:00 – What Should More People Be Thinking About?

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